New Delhi: Former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain on Monday approached the Supreme Court seeking bail in the money laundering case against him. Earlier, he had challenged the Delhi High Court order rejecting his bail plea. He is currently lodged in Tihar Jail as of June 2022.
On August 24, 2017, the CBI registered an FIR against Satyendar Jain, Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain, and Ankush Jain under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. On the basis of this FIR, the Enforcement Directorate started a money laundering probe against Satyendra.
The CBI also filed a charge sheet on December 3, 2018, against Satyendar Jain, Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain, and Ankush Jain.
The chargesheet states that Satyendar Jain, while holding the position of a minister in the Delhi government during the period from February 14, 2015, to May 31, 2017, had acquired wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income. In the charge sheet, the CBI accused Satyendar Kumar Jain and others of having committed offences under the Prevention of Corruption Act of 1988.
Earlier in the day, a notice was issued to the superintendent of Delhi’s Tihar Jail for shifting two prisoners to the cell of former minister Satyendar Jain. Satyendar Jain had requested the superintendent shift the prisoners to his cell, complaining of loneliness.
Satyendar Jain, through a letter dated May 11, requested the superintendent be with more inmates and, in his letter, cited depression due to loneliness and the need for more social contact. Satyendar Jain also claimed in his letter that he was advised to do so by a doctor.
Satyendra Jain wrote in the letter that he was feeling sad because of loneliness. A psychiatrist suggested I have more social contact, and he has requested that I be with at least two more people.
