Money laundering case: AAP's Satyendar Jain's judicial custody extended, wife gets bail

A Delhi court on Tuesday extended Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain's judicial custody till August 27, while his wife Poonam Jain was granted regular bail in a money laundering case.

Jain had moved a fresh bail plea in the matter, which will now be heard on August 27. The Enforcement Directorate had arrested Jain on May 30 this year on charges of corruption.

Prior to the arrest, assets worth Rs 4.81 crores linked to AAP minister's family were attached by ED in a disportionate assets case.

His aides were arrested on June 6 with the probe agency recovering Rs 2.85 crore cash and 133 gold coins from their premises across Delhi and other locations.

The ED had initiated a money laundering investigation based on a First Information Report (FIR) registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on August 24, 2017, under the sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act against Satyendar Jain and others.

The CBI alleged that Satyendar Jain, while holding the office as a Minister in the Government of Delhi, during the period February 14, 2015, to May 31, 2017, had acquired assets that are disproportionate to his known sources of income

The CBI last Friday had raided Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's house for his alleged involved him in the Delhi liquor scam. Sisodia called the allegations a conspiracy and claimed that the BJP-ruled Centre had offered him to join them.

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