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AAP MLA Amanatulah Khan brought to Rouse Avenue Court by Anti Corruption Branch, Delhi govt after arrest in an alleged case of irregularities in Delhi Waqf Board. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

Senior counsel @TheRahulMehra appears for Khan.

District Judge raps ACB sleuths: Question is where it should be filed? Don't you know the jurisdiction? Have you asked anyone where it should be filed? Why have you filed this application before another court? Case is pending in one court and you are asking for transfer.

DJ: Direct channel chala rahe hain. PPs ko kuch samajhte nahi hain. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

Prosecutors Atul Kumar Shrivastava and Manish Rawat are representing ACB.

DJ allows plea of ACB, orders withdrawal of matter from Special Court and transfer to another court. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah #corruption case

Special Judge Vikas Dhull presides. PP seeks custody of 14 days of @KhanAmanatullah. The complaint is that some persons, relatives have been appointed in the Waqf board.

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PP reads provisions on appointment under the Waqf Act.

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PP: They have shown urgency that people are not there. They gave (ad) in local paper. 22 were appointed from local Okhla, which the MLA represents.

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PP shows an entry of "₹4 crore cash for Amanat sahab".
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PP now showing other entities which he says pertains to money for #AmanatullahKhan
Besides, cash ₹24 lakh is recovered yesterday from 2 places (conduits).

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PP: I'll gotten money has not stopped here, it has gone to Uttarakhand, Telangana. We are at a very initial stage.

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PP while handing over documents to court: We need thorough investigation of this man.

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PP: A person whose income is ₹4.32 lakh, is receiving cash of ₹4 crore, etc, etc.

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PP: ACB official was manhandled, slapped when he went. Entire team was manhandled. Fire arms have been recovered. PP now shows video to Special Judge of the ACB official being reportedly being manhandled.

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. @TheRahulMehra: They can go anywhere. Instead of Telangana they could have said London. What is the endeavour right now?
Applications on police remand are made in a manner jaise ki temple me aaye ho aur prasad le ke jaoge. 14 custody din maangenge, mil jayega. But it's not so.

. @TheRahulMehra now refers to the Waqf Act: It has an umbrella protection. First they have to move beyond this first. First they have to prove that it was not in good faith and second that what is done is beyond the scope of this act. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

. @TheRahulMehra: For argument propose even if I say, worse case, there is something to do with recruitment, it is an irregularity and not an illegality. What law have i not followed? They have prove case beyond reasonable doubt. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

@TheRahulMehra: What is the provision? What they are referring to is under the 1954 Act. He is reading the relevant portions of the Act @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

. @TheRahulMehra argues on the nature of employees who were recruited: Just because you have a high hand of the state, you'll say anything? There is still a rule of law. Ye Prasad nahi hai 14 din ka jo leke chale jayenge. I'm an MLA, millions of people know me;

. @TheRahulMehra: What's the purpose? Lakhs vote for me. He is a marked MLA, defame him when he is going to seek votes. Despite that he won with a handsome margin. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

. @TheRahulMehra: Show how he has not cooperated. You show a diary. Anyone can insert names. Even names of constitutional authorities can be inserted in a diary. Who are these relatives? Even if they are blood relatives. Am I supposed to answer for them?...

.@TheRahulMehra: There is nothing to correlate with him.... As a fair state you must investigate. If he is found guilty, take him to the gallows. As an MLA, is he going to abscond? If he wanted to he would have done it earlier. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

. @TheRahulMehra: you are doing a fishing and roving inquiry. How is related to Waqf? Anybody, anybody's accounts? Just because media is here. You flash it everywhere. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

. @TheRahulMehra: How is ₹4 crore cash connected to me.... You can say whatever you want to say. Even that ₹3.2 crore. Where is the material to say this is Mr Amanatullah's? @AamAadmiParty
@KhanAmanatullah

. @TheRahulMehra reads a High Court judgment on remand. "Sitting MLA. You're not a terrorist. Trial will go on. Advanced democracies like the US people are not even arrested." @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

. @TheRahulMehra: Please ask where the accused was when this video was taken. I was in their custody. How can you connect it to me? @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

BREAKING: . @TheRahulMehra moves bail plea for @KhanAmanatullah. Let this be a test case for a sitting MLA, he says. "We must maintain the rule of law. Tomorrow it can be someone else on the receiving end. We must follow the rule of law". @AamAadmiParty

PP Atul Shrivastava: FIR is not an encyclopaedia. He has also said that the Act deals with only permanent employees. It doesn't mention contractual or permanent. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

PP: Good faith has to be proved by you, not me. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

Judge: What is the criminality?
PP: 5 relatives hain, 22 oklha se hain (MLA's constituency).
Mehra: He saying there were ads. Show which rules were violated?
PP names MLA's relatives.
Mehra: Ever since Delhi has come in existence, please ask how it was done? It was this way.

. @TheRahulMehra: You don't like the man... For two years, you should have brought before the court. First you wanted to show he is the bad character. Now you want to show the high court that he is an accused also.

Judge to PP: Did you investigate (a statement being referred to by the ACB) for the last two years?
PP: It's been investigated.
. @TheRahulMehra: why did this statement come only yesterday? It was being probed for last 2 years. A lot can be read into this also. @AamAadmiParty

. @TheRahulMehra: They're saying a lot of things. Let them bring all this on record. Give them a day, take how much ever time, and release me. @AamAadmiParty @KhanAmanatullah

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