New Delhi: Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) reached the residence of AAP leader Amanatullah Khan this morning in connection with the agency’s investigation into a money laundering case against the MLA. The case relates to alleged irregularities in appointments in Delhi Waqf Board and leasing of its properties.
Mr Khan put out a video statement on X in which he said the ED team has plans to arrest him. “The ED team has come to arrest me on the pretext of a search. My mother-in-law is a cancer patient, she was operated upon four days back. She is also at my home. I had informed this (to the ED),” he said.
Alleging that the agency’s aim is to arrest him, he said, “They have been harassing me for two years, slapping false cases, creating problems. They are harassing our whole party. Their objective to break our party. I appeal to the people of Okhla to pray for me and promise that we will get all your work done. Don’t worry, we will not get scared.”
Visuals show an elderly woman on a bed as Mr Khan speaks to a man — apparently an ED official — on the other side of a mesh door. “I want four weeks’ time. My mother-in-law has been operated upon,” he says. The man outside the gate replies, “Why do you believe we are here to arrest you?” The legislator replies, “Why else have you come?” A woman, apparently Mr Khan’s wife, is heard saying, “What do you need to search at a three-room house. Why do you have to turn my home upside down every time?”
Top AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh have hit out at the BJP government at the Centre and accused it of targeting those who raise their voice against the ruling party.
