India, Nov. 13 -- LUCKNOW The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is questioning Samajwadi Party leader and former UP cabinet minister Mohammad Azam Khan over the alleged diversion of Rs.426.46 crore in public funds and assets to Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur. Investigators are focusing on government contracts, construction material, land acquisitions and financial transactions involving entities linked to the university.

Khan is in four-day ED custody, from Thursday evening until November 16 afternoon, at the agency's Delhi headquarters. Investigators are confronting him with financial records and details of transactions allegedly routed through companies and suspected shell entities to establish the source and utilisation of funds ...