New Delhi:
First, he was questioned within the day, then the raids adopted and by night the Delhi Anti-Corruption Bureau arrested Aam Aadmi Celebration MLA Amanatullah Khan in a two-year-old corruption case associated to alleged unlawful appointments within the Delhi Waqf Board.
The Okhla MLA was known as for questioning at 12 pm right now in reference to the case, which was registered underneath the Prevention of Corruption Act in 2020.
“Mr Amanatullah Khan whereas working as Chairman of Delhi Waqf Board illegally recruited 32 individuals violating all norms and Govt. pointers and with allegations of corruption and favoritism. The then CEO of Delhi Waqf Board had clearly given assertion and issued memorandum in opposition to such unlawful recruitment,” stated a press launch from the anti-corruption workplace.
The anti-corruption unit has additionally claimed that its search workforce was “attacked by the family and different recognized individuals of Mr. Amanatullah Khan” outdoors his residence.
The ACB additional claims that the AAP chief “misappropriated the funds of Delhi Waqf Board comprising grants in support from Delhi Authorities”.
The ACB seized Rs 24 lakh in addition to two unlawful and unlicensed weapons.
Mr Khan is the most recent of a number of AAP leaders being raided by central investigative businesses in what has was a bitter confrontation between the Centre and the AAP.
Mr Khan, Chairman of the Delhi Waqf Board, had final evening posted a snide tweet in regards to the discover, claiming he has been summoned as he constructed a brand new Waqf board workplace.
वक़्फ़ बोर्ड का नया दफ़्तर बनवाया है,
हमें #ACB ने बुलाया है…चलो फिर बुलावा आया है! pic.twitter.com/YAiumagPbc
— Amanatullah Khan AAP (@KhanAmanatullah) September 15, 2022
The Anti-Corruption Department of the Delhi authorities, which experiences to Lt Governor VK Saxena, a consultant of the BJP-led authorities on the centre, had despatched discover to Mr Khan to look for questioning over allegations of unlawful appointment within the Delhi Waqf Board which oversees the administration of Islamic property devoted to welfare causes.
Earlier, the ACB had written to the Lieutenant Governor’s Secretariat demanding that Mr Khan be eliminated because the Delhi Waqf Board chairman for allegedly hampering a probe by “bullying” witnesses in a case in opposition to him.
Mr Saxena had earlier cleared the CBI to prosecute the Delhi Waqf Board Chairman within the case registered in opposition to him in 2016, information company PTI had reported.
The information company quoted sources as saying that the prosecution sanction has additionally been granted in opposition to then Waqf Board CEO Mehboob Aalam for offences together with “deliberate and legal violation” of guidelines, rules, and legislation, and “misuse of place” and inflicting monetary losses to the exchequer.
The Delhi authorities’s income division’s sub-divisional Justice of the Peace (headquarters) had in November 2016 filed a criticism alleging “arbitrary and unlawful” appointments by Mr Khan to varied current and non-existing posts within the Delhi Waqf Board.
