The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has requested the president to grant prosecution permissions against former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendra Jain. The ministry has sought sanction against Jain under section 218 of Bharathi Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita. The request for sanction was made on the basis of an enforcement directorate (ED) investigation and the presence of ‘adequate evidence’.
The 60-year-old Delhi politician was booked by the enforcement directorate in a money laundering case linked to alleged hawala dealing and was arrested in the matter in May 2022. Jain is currently out on bail.
Money Laundering Case Against Jain
The money laundering case on Satyendra Jain stems from an August 2017 FIR filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation for allegedly possessing disproportionate assets. The CBI, in its charge sheet, stated that this disproportionate asset amounted to ₹1.47 crore, 217% higher than Jain’s known source of income between 2015-17.
In the recently concluded Delhi assembly election, Satyendra Jain lost the Shakur Basti seat to Bharathi Janta party’s Karnail Singh by nearly 21,000 votes.
