New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is currently conducting raids on premises linked to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amanatullah Khan. The agency has said the raids are connected to a money laundering case, under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.Khan, the sitting MLA from Okhla, had been arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch in September last year, in a case pertaining to alleged irregularities in the Delhi Waqf Board’s finances. The Delhi ACB reports to Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena.In 2016, a case was registered against Khan at the instance of the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (Headquarters), Revenue department, who alleged that appointments to various existing and non-existing posts by Khan in the Waqf Board were “arbitrary and illegal”.A first information report (FIR) was registered in January 2020 by ACB under Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (relates to public servants taking bribe requires a demand of illegal gratification and the acceptance thereof) and Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code. The ED has taken suo motu cognisance of the ACB’s FIR in the matter.Khan has rejected these charges.Khan, an outspoken critic of the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre, was arrested in May last year after protesting against the BJP-run civic body’s bulldozing drive in Madanpur Khadar. He received bail a day later.In the aftermath of this arrest, the news agency ANI reported that the Delhi police had “declared” Khan a “history-sheeter and bad character” on March 30. Khan moved court against this characterisation.AAP has been consistently alleging that the BJP-led Union government is using central agencies to target its leaders, including the jailing of Satyendra Singh, Manish Sisodia and recently Sanjay Singh in the excise policy case.