NEW DELHI: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday claimed that a team of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) was at his house in Delhi’s Okhla to arrest him.
Sources said the ED team was conducting a raid in connection with the alleged irregularities in the recruitment of staff for the Delhi Waqf Board. The team was accompanied by Delhi Police and CRPF personnel.
In a self-made video, the AAP MLA said the investigative agency has been harassing him for the past two years.
“It is 7 AM right now. ED has come to my residence to arrest me in the name of a search warrant. My mother-in-law has been diagnosed with cancer. She had an operation four days ago. She is also at my house. I have written to them (ED) and I have replied to every notice. Their only motive is to arrest me and stop our work. For the last two years, these people have been harassing me, and filing fake cases against me. Every day, they are creating some or the other problem for not only me but my entire party…We are neither going to bow down to them nor are we going to be afraid of them, they will send us to jail. I am hopeful that the way we got justice in the court earlier, this time too we will get justice,” he said.
AAP MP Sanjay Singh criticised the ED for being “ruthless”. “Look at the cruelty of the ED. Amanatullah Khan first participated in the ED’s investigation and requested more time due to his mother-in-law’s cancer and her recent surgery. Despite this, they raided his house early in the morning. There is no evidence against Amanatullah Khan, but both Modi’s dictatorship and the ED’s thuggery continue.”
Amanatullah Khan was arrested in April by the ED in the case and later got bail from the Delhi Rouse Avenue court which granted him bail on a personal bond of Rs 15,000 and one surety of the like amount.
The Enforcement Directorate had filed a complaint against him for failing to appear before the agency and participate in the investigation related to alleged irregularities in appointments at the Delhi Waqf Board. According to complaints, Khan allegedly got a large amount of cash through illegal staff recruitment at the Delhi Waqf Board and used the money to buy properties in the names of his associates.