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The Enforcement Directorate has booked suspended Aam Aadmi Party councilor Tahir Hussain, Islamist group Popular Front of India and some others on charges of money laundering and alleged funding of the recent violence in northeast Delhi. Hussain is facing charges of killing an Intelligence Bureau official during the violence.

The agency has registered the case against Hussain under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Similar charges have also been pressed against the Popular Front of India. At present, Hussain is in the custody of Delhi Police.