New Delhi: Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former Member of Parliament Azam Khan was remanded to 14 days of judicial custody by a special Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) court in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, on Sunday (November 1). Khan was arrested right after he and his son were released from Rampur Jail on Saturday night after 11 months in jail in connection with an earlier case.As per the Times of India, officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) questioned Khan outside Rampur jail on Saturday night before taking him away in a vehicle.“What more can I say now,” ToI quoted him as saying before he was taken away. “This is the punishment for being a Muslim. The mistake is that a Muslim built a university. That is our crime.”Khan was later taken to the ED headquarters in New Delhi for questioning, as per a report by The New Indian Express. After Khan complained of a chest and stomachache, the ED and a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) team took him to RML hospital in Delhi for a check up. After clearance from a specialist team of doctors, he was brought to ED and questioned again, as per the report. As per unnamed officials quoted by the TNIE, Khan was questioned about alleged misuse of government funds in the construction of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur. According to other unnamed sources quoted by TNIE, the ED produced Azam Khan before Special Judge (Anti-Corruption CBI court) Avanish Kumar Pandey at around 10.30 am on Sunday amid tight security. A convoy of five ED vehicles brought him to the court premises, accompanied by more than 100 personnel from the CRPF and the Uttar Pradesh Police, the news report said. It quoted Khan as saying, as per unnamed sources: “What is left to say now?”As per the TNIE report, the court gave the order after hearing the matter for about 90 minutes. ED’s deputy director Piyush Thorat and assistant director Praveen Kumar were also present inside the court.Khan will now be lodged in Dasna District Jail in Ghaziabad. As per the TNIE report, SP national general secretary Shivpal Singh Yadav criticised the government, alleging that the ED acted at its behest to arrest Khan immediately after his release from jail. He called upon people to speak out against what he described as oppressive governments, the news report said.