Former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain has been granted bail
New Delhi: Former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain has been granted bail by a local court in a money laundering case. Mr Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) two years ago.
The Supreme Court had granted him interim bail in May 2023 on medical grounds. He returned to Tihar jail in Delhi after the Supreme Court rejected his request for regular bail in March this year.
“Considering the delay in the trial and the long incarceration of 18 months and the fact that the trial will take a long time to commence, let alone conclude, the accused is amenable to relief,” Special Judge Vishal Gogne said, according to news agency PTI. Mr Jain is the third AAP leader to be granted bail in different cases in recent times.
Former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail last month, while his former deputy Manish Sisodia was granted bail in August; both were accused of money laundering in framing a new liquor policy for the national capital.
The AAP leader has been alleging that the Centre used probe agencies against him for political gains ahead of the election battle. The Centre has denied the allegations at every turn.
The ED case against Mr Jain is based on an FIR registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2017 on alleged money laundering using companies linked to him.
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