New Delhi:Two-days after the Anti-Corruption Branch raided the Delhi Waqf Board office, AAP MLA Amantullah Khan resigned as its chairman and also offered to resign as MLA and political affairs committee (PAC) member to the party claiming that he was being “framed in false cases”. A case of sexual harassment has been registered against Khan in southeast Delhi’s Jamia Nagar Police station on a complaint by his relative. Crying foul play, Khan alleged he was being framed in false cases as he is an MLA of Aam Aadmi Party and was exposing corruption in the Waqf Board. Because,I was the chairman of Waqf Board and exposing corruption in it one by one,” Khan said. On Khan’s resignation offer, AAP state convenor Dilip Pandey said, “He (Khan) has said what he had to.

Source: Mint September 11, 2016 05:15 UTC