The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned the wife and son of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for questioning in an ongoing money laundering probe against him.
Khan, 73, is also a Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA from Rampur seat in Uttar Pradesh. His son Abdullah Azam Khan, MLA from the Suar Assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh and wife Tazeen Fatma have been asked to depose separately before the ED's regional office in Lucknow this week, officials said.
The agency is seeking to record their statements under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the case being probed against Azam Khan, they said.Azam Khan has already been grilled by the agency in the case when he was lodged in Sitapur jail. Now, he is out on bail. He was released from jail in May after 27 months following the Supreme Court granting him interim bail in a separate forgery case.
The agency had initiated a probe against Khan in 2019 after taking cognisance of at least 26 FIRs filed by the State police against him including allegations that a university run by him in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh has been raised over a land that has been grabbed from an 'enemy property'.
Khan is the chairman of the Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar Trust which runs three branches of Rampur Public School. He had earlier also served as Urban Development Minister in SP Government.