NEW DELHI: A courtroom in Delhi on Monday prolonged AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan’s judicial custody until October 7 in reference to a cash laundering case associated to alleged irregularities in appointments made on the Delhi Waqf Board throughout his tenure as its chairperson.
The Rouse Avenue Court docket, nevertheless, allowed Khan to hold his medical report in judicial custody.
The courtroom additionally known as for a report from jail authorities on Khan’s utility looking for permission to hold an electrical kettle and a glucose monitoring gadget in jail.
The courtroom has set September 25 as the subsequent date of listening to.
The cash laundering probe in opposition to Khan stems from two FIRs, one registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation within the Delhi Wakf Board-related “irregularities” and one other by the Delhi Anti-Corruption Department associated to a case of alleged possession of disproportionate belongings.
Khan is amongst a number of AAP leaders who’ve been arrested by the federal company in numerous cash laundering circumstances, together with chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and former minister Satyendar Jain.
Sisodia and Sanjay Singh are actually out of jail on bail.
The ED has claimed Khan acquired “big proceeds of crime” in money by way of unlawful recruitment of employees within the Delhi Wakf Board and invested these to buy immovable belongings within the title of his associates.
The company had alleged in an announcement that “unlawful recruitment” of employees occurred within the Wakf Board and “unlawful private good points” have been made by unfairly leasing the Wakf Board properties throughout Khan’s chairmanship (2018-2022).
The company filed a cost sheet on this case in January and named 4 individuals together with three alleged associates of Khan — Zeeshan Haider, Daud Nasir and Jawed Imam Siddiqui.
