Delhi health minister Satyendra Jain sent to 14-day judicial custody

The Rouse Avenue Court of Special Judge (PC Act) Geetanjali Goyal sent Jain to judicial custody for 14 days in the money laundering case.

Meanwhile, a Delhi court will hear his bail application on Tuesday.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had arrested Jain on May 30, in connection with the violation of provisions of PMLA, pertaining to disproportionate assets.

On June 9, the court had granted ED the custody of Jain till June 13, after the national agency submitted that they need to confront him with the people whose houses were raided.

The Central Bureau of Investigation had registered a case in 2017 under Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(e) of the PC Act, 1988 against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain, following which, the ED had initiated an investigation into the case.

The CBI filed a charge sheet on December 3, 2018, against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, and other accused by alleging that the Delhi minister, while holding the portfolio during the period February 14, 2015, to May 31, 2017, had acquired assets which were disproportionate to his known sources of income.

The ED had earlier provisionally attached the immovable properties worth Rs 4.81 crore belonging to companies beneficially owned and controlled by Jain on March 31 and arrested Jain on May 30 under section 19 of the PMLA.