AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan Arrested Following ED Raid

New Delhi: Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Aam Aadmi Party MLA Amanatullah Khan on Monday in connection with alleged irregularities in appointments to the Delhi Waqf Board and leasing of its properties.

The AAP leader’s house in Delhi was raided by the ED on Monday morning. “The ED has come to arrest me on the pretext of a search. My mother-in-law is a cancer patient… she was operated on four days ago. She is at my home. I informed the ED of this…”, said the AAP MLA in a video posted on X on Monday morning.

Amanatullah Khan is the fourth high-profile AAP leader to be arrested by a central agency. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was arrested in February 2023, followed by Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. These three were arrested in the Delhi liquor policy scam case by the ED as well as the CBI.

Sanjay Singh and Manish Sisodia have received bail. Kejriwal remains in jail, as he has got bail in the ED case but is fighting the second bail battle against arrest by the CBI.