NEW DELHI, Oct 10: The Aam Admi Party asserted its MLA Amanatullah Khan was being raided by the ED in a case he was granted bail in last year.
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday raided Khan’s premises in Delhi as part of a money-laundering investigation against him and some others, official sources said.
The 49-year-old legislator represents the Okhla constituency in the Delhi Assembly.
Addressing a press conference, AAP leader Raghav Chadha claimed the BJP was scared of the INDIA alliance.
“I would like to say that agencies are silent in BJP-ruled states while in non-BJP states, they are violent. Almost 95 per cent of cases registered by CBI and ED are against opposition leaders from the INDIA alliance. Ever since the INDIA alliance has been formed, Congress, Shiv Sena, Trinamool Congress and other member parties’ leaders have been targeted. This is the fear of the alliance,” he said.
Asserting that BJP has “special affection” for the AAP, he said its leaders Satyendar Jain, Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh were arrested in false cases where no trail of ill-gotten wealth was found.
Also, Chadha on Tuesday approached the Delhi High Court challenging a trial court’s decision to vacate an interim order which stopped the Rajya Sabha secretariat from dispossessing him from the government bungalow allotted to him.Chadha said he will continue to fight for his Rajya Sabha membership and for his government residence.
‘ED did not find anything during raid, took my phone away’
AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan on Tuesday said the Enforcement Directorate (ED) did not find anything during a 12-hour raid at his residence here and just took away his mobile phone.
Khan claimed that a 2016 CBI FIR against him in connection with recruitment conducted at the Delhi Waqf Board did not have any corruption charge and alleged that he was simply harassed by the ED.
“They came to search my house at 7 am. There is nothing in my house. They did not get anything earlier, neither did they get anything this time,” Khan said in front of his Okhla residence after the raid ended in the evening.
“They only took away my mobile phone. They harassed me for 12 hours. They opened all the boxes and drawers and rummaged through clothes,” the Okhla MLA said.
The ED raided the premises of Khan as part of a money-laundering investigation against him and some others, official sources said. The searches were related to a 2016 FIR lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). (PTI)
