Latest News in India: The Delhi Rouse Avenue Court on Monday extended judicial custody of AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan till October 7 in a money laundering case related to alleged irregularities in appointments made at the Delhi Waqf Board during his stint as its chairperson.
However, the Delhi Court allowed the medical record of AAP leader and permitted him to carry the same with him during judicial custody. The case has been further scheduled for September 25. The court also ordered jail authorities to furnish a report on Khan’s application for seeking permission to take an electric kettle and a glucose monitoring device to jail.
Notably, Khan is one of several AAP leaders arrested by the federal probe agency in various money laundering cases, including Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh, and former minister Satyendar Jain. However, Kejriwal, Singh, and Sisodia are now out on bail from jail.
The complaint filed by the ED claims that AAP leader Amanatullah Khan received a huge cash amount through illegal staff recruitment at the Delhi Waqf Board and invested the amount in purchasing properties on the name of his associates.
It is based on an FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The ED launched its investigation on this basis, regarding which the FIR was filed in 2016. Khan accused the AAP leader of illegally appointing people to non-sanctioned and even non-existent vacancies in the Delhi Waqf Board, thus causing financial loss to the Delhi government and illegal gains to himself.