Today, On 9th July, Satyendar Jain’s final bail plea denied by a Delhi court in a money laundering case. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Jain on May 30, 2022. This arrest followed a CBI FIR from 2017, filed under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
New Delhi: The Rouse Avenue Court, On Tuesday, denied the final bail plea of Satyendar Jain, a former Delhi Cabinet minister, in the money laundering case. Jain requested interim bail on health grounds. Previously, the Supreme Court instructed the Delhi High Court to address the bail plea of the incarcerated former AAP minister.
On May 28, the high court asked for the Enforcement Directorate‘s response and directed them to submit a status report on the case.
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In a related development, Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena sanctioned a recommendation to investigate the former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a corruption case concerning the installation of CCTVs in the city.
Raj Niwas officials stated,
“Jain is accused of accepting a bribe of Rs 7 crore in exchange for waiving a Rs 16 crore penalty imposed on a company for delays in installing CCTVs across 70 Assembly constituencies in Delhi.”
Saxena concurred with the Directorate of Vigilance‘s proposal to refer the matter under Section 17A of the Prevention of Corruption Act to the Union Home Ministry for approval of an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), according to officials.
Jain, who was the Public Works Department minister and the key authority for the project, oversaw the installation of 1.4 lakh CCTV cameras in Delhi at a cost of Rs 571 crore, officials reported.
Jain arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in May 2022 on charges of money laundering. He remained in jail for a year before the Supreme Court granted him interim bail on medical grounds in 2023.
After the interim bail expired, the Supreme Court rejected his regular bail plea, ordering him to surrender immediately. Prior to this, both the Delhi trial court and the Delhi High Court rejected his regular bail pleas.
In May, the Delhi High Court sought the ED’s response to a default bail plea filed by Jain. The ED’s case against Jain originates from an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under Sections 13(2) (criminal misconduct by public servant) read with 13(e) (disproportionate assets) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The FIR alleged that Jain acquired movable properties in the name of various persons between 2015 and 2017, which he could not satisfactorily account for.
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