‘ED at my house to arrest me’: AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday morning claimed that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrived at his house to arrest him. In a video message, Khan said that the probe agency’s aim is just to arrest and harass him.
“ED has arrived at my house to arrest me…Just now, early in the morning, at the behest of the dictator, his puppet ED has reached my house; the dictator is leaving no stone unturned in harassing me and AAP leaders,” he wrote in a post on X in Hindi at around 6:30 am.
However, he did not specify the reason.
Khan also said that he is ready to go to jail and believes that the court will give him justice.
Khan is under scanner in a money laundering case related to the financial irregularities pertaining to the Delhi Waqf Board.
The alleged arrest comes weeks after the Delhi High Court refused to stay the proceedings pending against Khan before the trial court for non-compliance with the summons issued to him in the Delhi Waqf Board case and sought ED’s response to Khan’s petition.
Khan had sought to set aside the city court’s July 31 order, which upheld the magistrate court’s April 9 order issuing summons to him in a complaint filed by the ED alleging non-compliance of the summons by the agency in connection with the money laundering case.
On April 4, the ED filed a complaint against Khan under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) sections 190, read with Indian Penal Code (IPC) section 174 and Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) section 63(4) for not complying with summons issued to him under PMLA section 50, which grants the agency the power to issue summons.
AAP leaders react
AAP MP Sanjay Singh slammed the ED for its “cruelty”, saying that the probe agency has no evidence.
“Look at the cruelty of ED! @KhanAmanatullah first joined the ED investigation, then asked for time for further time; his mother-in-law has cancer, and she has undergone an operation, and they reached the house early in the morning to raid,” he wrote in a post on X and also shared a video of the ED arriving at Khan’s house.
Singh further slammed the Centre, saying that “Modi’s dictatorship and ED’s hooliganism continue”.
AAP leader and Delhi’s former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia also slammed the probe agency, saying that their only work is to “suppress every voice raised against BJP”.
“This is the only work left for ED. Suppress every voice raised against BJP. Break it. Arrest and put in jail those who do not break or get suppressed,” he said.
‘Reaping what he sow’: BJP
Meanwhile, BJP Delhi spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor reacted to the AAP MLA’s ED arrest, saying that he is “reaping what he sow”.
“One reaps what one sows…@KhanAmanatullah I wish you had remembered that,” he wrote.