New Delhi: Amanatullah Khan, the AAP MLA from Delhi's Okhla area, was on Saturday sent to four-day police custody in the Delhi Waqf Board corruption case.
He was arrested late on Friday by the Delhi Anti Corruption Bureau after day-long raids at his residence, besides the premises of his aides and business partners. Earlier on Saturday, was produced in court by the Anti-Corruption Bureau. Delhi Police had lodged 3 FIRs following a previous raid at premises connected to him and his aides.
On Friday, the ACB conducted searches at AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan's house and his other locations, and seized Rs 24 lakh as well as an unlicensed weapon from him, the officials said.
Amanatullah's business partner Hamid Ali was also arrested by South East Delhi Police under Arms Act. His premises were also raided on Friday by ACB. A pistol, some bullets & Rs 12 Lakhs cash were recovered from Hamid Ali's residence.
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Quoting ACB sources, news agency ANI reported that Hamid disclosed to the agency that Amanatullah kept weapons and cash in his house and all the transactions were done on his instructions. The ACB is probing alleged irregularities in the recruitment in the Delhi Waqf board. It issued a notice to Khan on Thursday for questioning in connection with the two-year-old corruption case.
The Okhla MLA was called for questioning on Friday at 12 pm in connection with a 2020 case registered under the Prevention of Corruption Act. Khan, the chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, had tweeted about the notice, claiming he had been summoned as he built a new Waqf board office.
A senior official said the searches were conducted on Friday at the house of Khan and his other locations. From one of the locations, Rs 24 lakh cash, an unlicensed weapon, and some cartridges were seized, the official said. Earlier, the ACB had written to the Lieutenant Governor's Secretariat demanding that Khan be removed as the Delhi Waqf Board chairman for allegedly hampering a probe by "bullying" witnesses in a case against him.
