Court issued notice to ED

New Delhi: The Rouse Avenue court on Wednesday issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the bail plea of Zeeshan Haider, who is in custody in the Delhi Waqf Board money laundering case in which AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan is also involved.
Along with Haider, two other accused have also been arrested. All the accused are in judicial custody till December 15.

Special Judge Vikas Dhull issued notice on the bail plea and directed the ED to file its reply. The case has been listed for further hearing on December 14.

Nitish Rana, counsel for the accused, argued that it was a trivial case and no process of offense arises from the scheduled offence.

According to ED, the money laundering case is related to the purchase and sale of land worth Rs 13.40 crore. It is alleged that the transactions involve proceeds of crime.

The agency has alleged that he has been arrested in connection with the sale and purchase of property from ill-gotten money from Amanatullah Khan.

Seeking the custody of the accused, the ED argued that ill-gotten money was used in the transaction and Rs 4 crore was given in cash. The amount of the transaction paid in cash was wrongly received by Amanatullah.

Advocate Rana had argued that there is an Agreement to Sale (ATS). Rs 9 crore crore has been paid through banking channels and Rs 4 crore is yet to be paid. He further argued that Zeeshan Haider joined the investigation four times. The only allegation is that another ATS has been recovered from him.

He had said that Amanatullah Khan is on bail.
It was also submitted that Zeeshan Haider is 64 years old, has undergone open heart surgery, has been advised angiography and is suffering from diabetes.

The lawyer argued that the charge sheet was filed by the CBI without arresting MLA Amanatullah, who is the main accused.
The lawyer argued that following this an FIR was registered by the ACB.