Delhi riots case: ED raids six locations including ex-AAP Councillor Tahir hussain’s premises

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out raids at six locations in connection with its ongoing money laundering probe into Delhi riots.
The premises raided include properties belonging to suspended AAP Councillor Tahir Hussain.

The agency carried out raids at four locations in north east and two in Noida. Hussain, earlier this month, was named by the Delhi Police for his alleged involvement in the Delhi riots case.

Hussain, Islamist group Popular Front of India (PFI) and some others were booked by ED on charges of money laundering in March.

The four-story building in Khajuri Khas, which was raided by ED on Tuesday is owned by Hussain and houses the office of Show Effect Advertisement Private Limited.

According to ED, the suspended AAP leader is also the director of two more companies - Show Effect Worldwide Private Limited and Essence Cellcom Private Limited.

The PFI is already facing a case from the central financial probe agency for their alleged role in the funding of the anti-CAA protests across the country.

The ED has taken cognisance of number of FIRs filed by Delhi Police Crime Branch to probe the alleged money laundering and routing of illegal funds by Hussain, PFI and others to purportedly sponsor the communal riots that killed over 52 people in the last week of February in north east Delhi.

The ED is probing the funding and source of income which Hussain allegedly received for ''inciting'' violence in Delhi.

On June 2, the Delhi Police filed two charge sheets in the case.

While the first chargesheet has been filed against Hussain under the Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, the Indian Penal Code and the Arms Act, the second chargesheet filed by the Delhi Police in the murder of Intelligence Bureau staffer Ankit Sharma during the Delhi riots has claimed that Hussain was "leading the mob from his house and also from the Masjid near Chand Bagh Pulia giving it a communal colour" and that his location near "the spot where the IB staffer was brutally murdered on February 25 speaks of his evil intentions which ended with the murder."