The Ministry of Residence Affairs has accorded sanction for CBI inquiry towards jailed AAP chief Satyendar Jain underneath the Prevention of Corruption (POC) Act, for allegedly extorting Rs 10 crores from infamous conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar, who was then lodged in Tihar Jail, authorities sources mentioned on Friday (March 29). Delhi LG, VK Saxena in February this yr, had despatched the proposal of the CBI to MHA for granting approval to prosecute/ examine Jain u/s 17A of PoC Act, they added.
What’s the extortion case?
Jain is accused of extorting Rs 10 crore as “safety cash” from Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
Jain and former Tihar Jail DG Sandeep Goyal are accused of working an extortion racket in Tihar Jail and amassing safety cash from excessive profile prisoners lodged in numerous jails of Delhi.
Moreover this, Sukesh Chandrashekhar had accused the AAP chief and Sandeep Goyal and different Tihar Jail officers Rajkumar and Mukesh Prasad of extorting Rs 12.50 crore between the yr 2019-22.
Chandrashekhar had additionally despatched a criticism to the LG of Delhi on the matter.
It’s alleged that Jain and different officers of Tihar Jail, in change of cash, misused their authorities place and offered many amenities to the prisoners in jail towards the jail guide.
AAP leaders in Tihar
Earlier, the Supreme Courtroom on March 18 dismissed the common bail plea of former Delhi Well being Minister Satyendar Jain in a cash laundering case investigated by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). A bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal requested the Aam Aadmi Celebration (AAP) chief, who was out on interim bail, was requested to “give up forthwith”. Jain, who was granted launch from jail on medical grounds for over 9 months, returned to jail. Alongside him, AAP leaders Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, and Vijay Nair are additionally in Tihar.
Jain arrested by ED in 2022
Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on Might 30, 2022, on allegations of cash laundering by means of 4 corporations purportedly related to him.
The ED case is predicated on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) criticism registered on the allegation that Satyender Jain had acquired movable properties within the identify of assorted individuals from February 14, 2015, to Might 31, 2017, which he couldn’t satisfactorily account for.
