Case of petition against ED summons, HC gave permission to Amanatullah...
AAP mla Amanatullah Khan had filed a petition against the ongoing investigation and summons of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the money laundering case. delhi High court on wednesday allowed Amanatullah to withdraw the petition. The bench of Justices rekha Palli and Rajneesh Bhatnagar rejected the petition considering it withdrawn. An investigation is going on against Amanatullah for alleged irregularities in delhi Waqf Board recruitment.
There are allegations against Amanatullah Khan that while being the Chairman of delhi Waqf Board, he had illegally recruited 32 people in violation of government rules and guidelines. ED had raided the premises of Okhla assembly constituency mla Amanatullah. ED has claimed that Amanatullah Khan earned huge amount from illegal recruitment of employees in delhi Waqf Board and used it to buy immovable property in the name of his associates. ED had sent summons to Amanatullah Khan to appear on january 30, after which Amanatullah had approached the court only last week.
Amanatullah made this demand in the petition
On the other hand, Amanatullah in his petition had sought to invalidate some PMLA provisions related to the powers of officers to issue summons and seek evidence. He had sought instructions to cancel any kind of investigation in the existing ECIR. Amanatullah's argument was that any income earned from crime was not included in the original list i.e. in the FIR registered by the cbi or acb in Delhi. In his petition, Amanatullah had sought quashing of the acb FIR on the grounds that there is a ban under the law on filing an FIR for the same crime a second time.