The Ministry of Home Affairs has accorded sanction for CBI inquiry against jailed AAP leader Satyendar Jain below 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 stated on Friday (March 29). Delhi LG, VK Saxena in February this 12 months, 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 is the extortion case?
Jain is accused of extorting Rs 10 crore as “protection money” from Sukesh Chandrashekhar.
Jain and former Tihar Jail DG Sandeep Goyal are accused of operating an extortion racket in Tihar Jail and amassing safety cash from excessive profile prisoners lodged in numerous jails of Delhi.
Besides this, Sukesh Chandrashekhar had accused the AAP leader and Sandeep Goyal and different Tihar Jail officers Rajkumar and Mukesh Prasad of extorting Rs 12.50 crore between the 12 months 2019-22.
Chandrashekhar had additionally despatched a grievance to the LG of Delhi on the matter.
It is alleged that Jain and different officers of Tihar Jail, in trade of cash, misused their authorities place and supplied many services to the prisoners in jail against the jail handbook.
AAP leaders in Tihar
Earlier, the Supreme Court on March 18 dismissed the common bail plea of former Delhi Health 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 Party (AAP) leader, who was out on interim bail, was requested to “surrender 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 May 30, 2022, on allegations of cash laundering by 4 corporations purportedly related to him.
The ED case relies on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) grievance registered on the allegation that Satyender Jain had acquired movable properties in the identify of varied individuals from February 14, 2015, to May 31, 2017, which he couldn’t satisfactorily account for.
