Enforcement directorate: Hasan Ali is not cooperating

Obeying the special court’s directives of presenting himself before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for five days for questioning, Hasan Ali Khan went to the office on Saturday and Sunday. However, officers said, Khan has so far not cooperated and refused to answer their questions properly.

Soon after the court granted him bail on Friday, Khan had told DNA that the five days’ visits to the ED office at Nariman Point, between 11am and 2pm, would be a mere formality.

“He (Khan) merely comes and spends most of the time silently on the sofa outside our office,” said an ED officer.

Khan is unperturbed with the reports of ED’s plan to move the Supreme Court for appeal against his bail. “We will wait and watch the SC’s order. However, there is no reason to fear, as ED had all these documents since four years. If they could do nothing till now, there can’t be a miracle all of a sudden to rescue their case,” said Khan’s lawyer Ramakant Gaur.

He added, “ED had admitted that Khan has already visited them 29 times. So there is nothing more they can question him about. Now, all they are trying to do is to instigate him to say or write something incriminating against himself, which he is resisting.”