AAP legislator Amanatullah Khan arrested after raids in corruption case

The ED on Friday launched fresh raids at about 40 locations across the country as part of a money laundering investigation into alleged irregularities in the now scrapped Delhi Excise Policy, sources said.

The searches are being conducted at premises linked to liquor businessmen, distributors and supply chain networks in Nellore and some other cities in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Delhi-NCR, they said.

The action started early morning with agency teams being escorted by police and paramilitary personnel at the locations being searched by them.

This is the second round of raids by the federal agency in this case after it first conducted

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Anti-Corruption Bureau on Friday arrested AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan in a graft case, officials said.

The ACB is probing alleged irregularities in the recruitment in the Delhi Waqf Board, which Khan heads as the chairman.

The ACB on Friday conducted searches at Khan’s house and other premises linked to him and seized `24 lakh as well as two unlicensed weapons, the officials said.

The ACB issued a notice to Khan on Thursday for questioning

searches on September 6 at about 40 locations across the country including that of some Punjab government in connection with the Prevention of Corruption Act case registered in 2020. The Okhla MLA was called for questioning at 12 pm on Friday.

Khan, the chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, tweeted

excise department officers.

The agency also questioned AAP leader and minister about the notice, claiming he has been summoned as he built a new Waqf board office. senior official said the searches were conducted on Friday at the house of Khan and his other locations. A total of `24 lakh, two unlicensed weapon and some cartridges were seized, the official said.

Earlier, the ACB had written to the LG’s Secretariat demanding Khan be removed as the Delhi Waqf Board chairman for allegedly hampering a probe by “bullying” witnesses in a case against him. —Agencies

Satyendar Jain, lodged in Tihar jail, in this case after it obtained permission from a local court to do so.