Delhi Waqf Board case: ED files supplementary charge sheet against AAP lawmaker Amanatullah Khan

New Delhi, October 29 (IANS): A Delhi court on November 4 took up a supplementary charge sheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday against AAP lawmaker Amanatullah Khan in the Delhi Waqf Board money laundering case.

The hearing on Khan’s bail application took place in the first week of November.

Special Judge Vishal Gogne on Tuesday extended Khan’s judicial custody till November 5 and took note of the additional batch of charges filed by the ED naming alleged accomplices of the MLA, who have been in judicial custody since his arrest on September 2.

The additional charge was filed on a day when the court had asked the ED to file its response to Khan’s bail application.

The more than 100-page supplemental charge sheet filed Tuesday is an addition to a charge sheet filed in the case by the federal agency in January.

Daud Nasir, Zeeshan Haider and Jawed Imam Siddiqui were among those named in the January charge sheet. The three were arrested by the ED in November 2023.

The ED is suspected to be investigating money laundering charges in connection with the alleged illegal appointment of employees and leasing of assets of the Delhi Waqf board during Amanatullah Khan’s tenure as its head.

Khan’s arrest came soon after the ED searched the lawmaker’s house in South Delhi’s Okhla area. The agency alleged that the MLA had purchased a property worth over Rs 35 crore in Okhla.

The lawmaker also faces allegations of using corruption money to buy properties in the names of his aides.

The Central Bureau of Investigation has also filed separate corruption cases against the AAP legislator.

The case dates back to November 2016, when a complaint was filed against Khan, the then chairman of the Waqf board.

The complaint accused him of making illegal appointments to various approved and unapproved positions within the Board of Directors.

Following a CBI investigation, it was revealed that Khan had deliberately ignored the rules to appoint his close associates.

The CBI registered a case, which was later taken up by the ED for money laundering investigation.