The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the bail petition of former Delhi minister Satyendra Jain and directed him to surrender. Jain was lodged in Tihar jail before he secured an interim medical bail in a money laundering case.
The matter was heard by a Supreme Court bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal who rejected the extension request and asked the petitioner to surrender.
Advocate Vivek Jain, who appeared for the former minister, sought an extension of time to surrender, citing his ill health. The court rejected the request and maintained its order, HT reported.
Satyendra Jain, the former health minister of Delhi, was granted interim medical bail in May last year after suffering a fall in a Tihar jail’s bathroom. On July 21 last year, he underwent a spinal operation. He was arrested in May 2022
The case pertains to the allegation that Jain, a former minister in the Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi cabinet, misused his position as minister from February 2015 to May 2017 to acquire disproportionate assets worth over 1.4 crore.
The Enforcement Directorate subsequently began an investigation into the money laundering charges through three companies allegedly linked to him.
The ED, which later attached the alleged proceeds of crime worth Rs 4.60 crore in the case, claimed that Satyendra Jain was controlling the three companies through the directorship of his wife, Poonam Jain.
Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who appeared for Satyendra Jain, earlier cited shareholding, directorship, and control over the financials of the companies and said the petitioner could not be said to have held control over them.
Earlier this month, Delhi LG V K Saxena granted sanction for a CBI probe against former minister Satyendar Jain in a complaint of extortion filed by money laundering accused Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
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