New Delhi. The troubles of SP leader Azam Khan, lodged in Ghaziabad's Dasna jail, are going to increase further. The special PMLA court has given four-day custody remand of Azam Khan to the Enforcement Directorate. Now ED will take Azam Khan in its custody and interrogate him. ED team will bring Azam Khan to Lucknow for questioning. The court has given permission to ED to take Azam Khan into custody and interrogate him till the evening of 16th November. ED will question Azam in the money laundering case related to Rampur's Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar University and Trust.
Azam Khan was arrested by ED in this case on October 31 from outside Rampur jail. Earlier, Azam Khan was in jail for a long time in the two PAN card cases of his son Abdullah Azam. Allahabad High Court had accepted the bail application of Azam and his son Abdullah on October 29, but Azam Khan was arrested by ED as soon as he came out of jail. On November 1, the next day of his arrest, the ED produced Azam Khan before the PMLA court in Ghaziabad from where he was sent to judicial custody. Now the ED has taken him into remand before the completion of the judicial custody period.
Although Azam Khan had approached the Supreme Court challenging the ED's arrest, but he did not get any relief from there. On November 5, the Supreme Court refused to hear Azam Khan's bail plea and transferred the case to Allahabad High Court. The Supreme Court, however, has said that the matter should be listed for hearing before the Division Bench of the High Court on November 16 and after the hearing, the court should pass its interim order on the bail application on the same day.