The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has registered a case against suspended Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Councillor Tahir Hussain under Prevention of Money Laundering Act. His purported links with the Islamist group Popular Front of India (PFI) are being investigated over the alleged funding of the recent riots in Delhi, ED officials said on Wednesday.
Officials said a criminal case against Tahir Hussain, who is facing charges of killing an Intelligence Bureau official during the riots in northeast Delhi last month, has been filed under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by the probe agency.
Enforcement Directorate has also registered a case against the PFI (Popular Front of India), which is already facing a separate PMLA probe, in connection with the Delhi violence.
Hussain was taken into custody by the Delhi Police last week.
The officials said that ED has taken cognizance of the FIRs filed by Delhi Police’s 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 50 people.