After multiple searches at his house…
On Monday, 02 September 2024, Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
He was arrested in connection with alleged irregularities in appointments to the Delhi Waqf Board and leasing of its properties.
The AAP leader's arrest follows dramatic scenes from the federal agency's raid on his Delhi residence this morning; in a video statement on X, he accused the ED of insensitivity, stating the raids had upset his mother-in-law, a cancer patient operated on last week.
"The ED has come to arrest me on the pretext of a search. My mother-in-law is a cancer patient... She was operated on four days ago. She is at my home. I informed the ED of this..."
Mr. Khan also rubbished the allegation against him and accused the agency of "harassing me for two years... slapping false cases (and) creating problems". "They are harassing our party (the AAP) ... they want to break our party... we will not get scared," the MLA from Delhi's Okhla said.
Edited By: Tanvi Walia
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