Amanatullah Khan, the AAP MLA, is asked to appear before the ED after the SC rejects his anticipatory bail plea

Amanatullah Khan, an AAP MLA, filed an anticipatory bail request on Monday, but the Supreme Court rejected it. The issue concerns money laundering and other irregularities in the Delhi Waqf Board under Khan’s leadership. Khan was directed to appear before the Enforcement Directorate on April 18 at 11 a.m. in the matter by a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta.

The court objected to several remarks made on the case’s merit in the Delhi High Court’s March 11 ruling and said that they would not apply to the situation. Following the trial court’s March 1 rejection of his appeal for anticipatory bail in the case, the Okhla MLA filed an application with the Delhi High Court.

The charge sheet that the ED submitted lately does not include Khan as one of the defendants. In its prosecution complaint, which is the ED’s version of a charge sheet, the agency has listed five individuals, three of whom are accused associates of Khan: Zeeshan Haider, Daud Nasir, and Jawed Imam Siddiqui.

According to the ED, searches were carried out in connection with the investigation concerning the accused’s purported illicit personal profits and unlawful hiring of employees, which included unjustly leasing Waqf Board assets from 2018 to 2022 while Khan served as its chair.

During the searches, a number of “incriminating” items, including digital and physical evidence, were found. According to the ED, these items showed Khan’s participation in the money laundering crime.