Court grants bail to AAP MLA Amanatullah, ten others in Waqf Board case

The Special CBI Court on Wednesday granted regular bail to Aam Aadmi Party’s MLA Amanatullah Khan and ten others in a case of alleged misuse of position related to “illegal appointments” to the Delhi Waqf Board.
Earlier, they were granted interim bail by the same court till the disposal of their regular bail. According to the CBI FIR, the case registered in 2016 under Section 120B IPC read with Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption act, 1988 (P.C. Act) against Amantullah Khan and others on allegations that he, as chairman of the Delhi Wakf Board (DWB), had acted in a corrupt and illegal way in getting appointed Mahboob Alam as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the DWB.
CBI stated that Amanatullah Khan also got appointed his relatives and other known persons on various contractual or daily wage posts in DWB, in collusion with and in furtherance of a criminal conspiracy hatched between all of them and all these appointments were made by misuse and abuse of the official positions of Amanatullah Khan and Mahboob Alam and also without following the due process of law. The rest of the nine accused in the case are some of these appointees and also the beneficiaries of and participants in the above criminal conspiracy, as alleged, noted the Court.