Amanat Ullah Khan sent to judicial custody, court to hear bail plea on Tuesday

A Delhi court on Monday remanded AAP MLA Amanat Ullah Khan to judicial custody and will hear his bail plea on Tuesday. The AAP MLA has been in custody in a case related to alleged irregularities in appointments in Delhi Waqf Board during his chairmanship.
Special CBI Judge Vikas Dhull remanded Amanat Ullah Khan to judicial custody for 14 days. The court has asked the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to file a reply on his bail plea. The AAP MLA was produced before the court after five days of custody and was interrogated by the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) for 9 days.
At the last hearing, ACB said that money was sent to Dubai and other money transactions need to be investigated. It was also alleged that an MCD school in Fatehpuri masjid was converted to shops and they were rented out at lesser rent which caused a loss to the board.
On Wednesday, ACB sought an extension of 10 days of remand for further interrogation and confrontation of the accused with his associate Kausar Imran Siddiqui alias who has been arrested from Telangana. Kausar Imran Siddiqui is identified to be the fund manager of the accused, ACB argued.
The court was informed that the accused was taken to Bada Hindu Rao hospital and then to AIIMS due to health problems and therefore, the remand time was consumed providing treatment to the accused.
The additional public prosecutor (APP) while seeking remand, submitted that the accused needed to be confronted with Laddan who had been arrested. Laddan was maintaining a diary. It was revealed during the investigation that a large amount of money was sent to Dubai and then transferred to a party. There were 100 people who either received or paid money to Laddan. Out of these 37 people have transactions of crores of rupees and the diary also has an entry about Zeeshan Haider who received crores of rupees. He is also a close associate of the accused.
APP submitted that all these need to be investigated and it requires time. Therefore an extension of the remand should be granted.
It was alleged that a sum of Rs 2 lakh was paid to the accused through a cheque by Hamid Ali through his company Cosmos developers of Uttrakhand. It was stated by the person that he borrowed the amount and returned it to the accused.
A certain amount has gone to Dubai also, APP submitted. At this point, Senior advocate Rahul Mehra opposed saying the link to Dubai should be explained. “Who sent the money, who received it and how it was sent, all these should be explained”, Mehra said.
APP Shrivastav said, “He could not disclose the details as the media is in court”. Mehra said that then the ACB should not have talked about Dubai.
The ACB also submitted that Laddan is a nominated functionary of a political party. He has photographs with the accused during an iftar party. Rahul Mehra objected to the contention saying there are photos of other leaders. Every leader meets people during festivities. It should be investigated. He asked, “ACB have they asked the accuser about this part. How this is relevant?”