Jailed Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain Loses Blue Tick On Twitter

Twitter has withdrawn the blue tick from the handle of jailed Delhi minister Satyendar Jain.

Satyendar Jain ( Image Source :PTI )

Twitter has removed the blue tick from the handle of jailed Delhi minister Sayendar Jain. Jain is currently lodged in Tihar jail in connection with a money laundering case.

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday interrogated Satyendar Jain in the Tihar Jail in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam. The CBI on Friday moved the Rouse Avenue District Courts seeking permission to interrogate him in the matter, and the court allowed its plea. He, however, is not an accused in the excise scam case.

The ED, had in its supplementary charge sheet, stated that the investigation done under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) so far has revealed that the Delhi Excise Policy, 2021-22 was created by top leaders of the AAP to continuously generate and channel illegal funds to themselves.  The money laundering case, in which Jain is in judicial custody, was initiated on the basis of an FIR registered by the CBI.

The FIR had alleged that 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 which are disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Earlier on February 13, the Delhi High Court adjourned the hearing in the bail plea of Jain and co-accused Ankush Jain and Vaibhav Jain in a Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case. On February 8, advocate Sushil Kumar Gupta appearing for Ankush Jain and Vaibhav Jain, the two aides of the Minister had concluded his submissions before a bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Sharma.

He had contended that in the present case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) is just investigating the predicate offence and not the money laundering case, and that the ED had presumptively established a case of disproportionate assets (DA), but this could not be their case because the agency must first establish the existence of a scheduled offence.

Citing the Vijay Madan Lal Judgment of the apex court, Gupta had argued that the role that the ED has given to his clients (Ankush Jain and Vaibhav Jain) in the current case should be different from the CBI case, but the ED has accused them under the same rules. He had further argued that the "proceeds of crime is the core" that needed to be established in the present case by the ED to have a case against his clients.

Special Judge Vikas Dhull had denied the two bail on November 17 last year.

Earlier, Satyendar Jain's counsel N. Hariharan had asked how is the minister involved in the present case and how is he related to it as the money belonged to Ankush and Vaibhav Jain, which came back to their account without any premium.