Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has given the CBI sanction for the prosecution of AAP MLA and Delhi Waqf Board (DWB) chairman Amanatullah Khan and retired IPS officer Mehboob Alam under Section 19 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and Section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 in connection with "illegal" appointments. The case was registered in 2016.
The prosecution sanction has also been granted for offenses including "deliberate and criminal violation" of rules, regulations, and law and "misuse of position" and causing financial losses to the exchequer. According to the official sources, the SDM (HQ), Revenue Department of the Delhi Government in November 2016, filed a complaint alleging arbitrary and illegal appointments to various existing and non-existing posts by Amanatullah in the DWB.
The CBI had undertaken thorough investigations that revealed sufficient prosecutable evidence of the commission of criminal offenses and had sought prosecution sanction of the L-G in May 2022.