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By Law Today Web Desk: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain on Monday moved Supreme Court seeking bail in the money laundering case, a month after the Delhi high court denied bail to him and two of his accomplices.
The Delhi high court bench led by Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma, had cited Jain as an ‘influential person who may tamper with the evidence’, while denying him bail in the last hearing in the case, on April 6.
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“The present court cannot go into the validity of these proceedings. Facts show that certain disproportionate assets were masked. The court has to see the prima facie case. The broad probabilities indicate that the companies associated with him are controlled and managed by him (Satyendar Jain),” the Delhi high court had said.
The verdict of the high court came at a time when another AAP minister Manish Sisodia is also in custody in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case. After Manish Sisodia was arrested by the CBI, both Sisodia and Jain resigned from the cabinet.
Jain has been in custody since May last year after the Enforcement Directorate attached properties worth Rs. 4.81 crore belonging to five companies in the money laundering case against him and few others. Satyendar Jain is accused of having laundered money through four companies allegedly linked to him.
Meanwhile, the Tihar Jail administration has issued a show cause notice to the superintendent of jail number 7 for transferring two inmates to former Satyendar Jain’s cell, officials said on Monday.
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