Jain was accused of extorting Rs 10 crore from an inmate, Sukesh Chandrashekhar, for offering him safety in the jail, sources mentioned.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has given approval for a CBI probe against AAP leader and former Delhi prisons minister Satyendar Jain in a matter beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act, official sources mentioned on Friday. Jain, who’s behind bars in reference to a cash laundering case, was accused of extorting Rs 10 crore from an inmate, Sukesh Chandrashekhar, for offering him safety in the jail, they mentioned.
Reacting to the event, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spokesperson Priyanka Kakkar alleged, “The vindictive and vendetta-filled politics of BJP has now reached a new low that a notorious conman’s word is believed and accepted as the gospel truth against a person who gave the world Delhi’s famous Mohalla Clinic concept.” Jain held a number of essential portfolios in the Arvind Kejriwal authorities together with Health, earlier than his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate in May 2022.
Apart from Jain, former director normal of Tihar prisons Sandeep Goel and another employees members had been charged with demanding and extorting “protection money” from high-profile inmates in Delhi jails. The ministry on March 22 authorized the CBI inquiry against Jain after which Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Okay Saxena forwarded the file to the chief secretary for additional acceptable motion, an official confirmed.
A complaint was filed by Chandrashekhar after which the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had begun inquiring into the matter and sought sanction from the competent authority to prosecute the previous minister beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act, he mentioned.
Chandrashekhar, lodged in Tihar jail in a cash laundering case, alleged in his complaint that “Jain had extorted Rs 10 crore from him in tranches during 2018-21, either personally or through his accomplices, as protection money so as to help him ‘live peacefully and comfortably’ in different jails of Delhi,” he mentioned.
It was additionally alleged that some jail officers had allegedly extorted Rs 12.50 crore from him in instalments throughout 2019-22, he said. Kakkar mentioned the Delhi LG was accountable for regulation and order in the nationwide capital and added the day just isn’t far when the BJP will face “grave consequences” for its actions, each electorally and legally.
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