After AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan was booked for threatening and mishandling Police, Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said that the latter is a man with “criminal nature” who has repeatedly tried to manipulate the law.

Speaking to ANI, Sachdeva called for strict legal action against such individuals.

“MLA Amanatullah Khan is a man with a criminal nature. There are already several cases pending against him, where he repeatedly try to manipulate the law. What he has done now is to save an accused in the murder. Such people should be punished under the law,” the Delhi BJP Chief said.

Delhi Police has launched an operation to search AAP MLA Amanatullah Khan after he was booked for allegedly leading an attack on a Delhi police team and threatening them in Jamia Nagar.

An FIR had also been registered against Amanatullah Khan for manhandling and threatening police and preventing them from carrying out the accused.

The case has been registered under sections 221, 121(1), 132, 191(2), 190, 263(b), 351(3) and 111 of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita 

The incident occurred on February 10 at around 3 pm when the Crime Branch team of Delhi Police went to the Jogabai Extension area of Jamia Nagar to nab Shavej Khan, one of the accused in a 2018 attempted murder case.