A Delhi Courtroom on Thursday granted bail to Aam Aadmi Social gathering chief Satyendar Jain within the corruption case associated to the alleged irregularities within the Delhi Jal Board.
Particular PC choose Dig Vinay Singh of Rouse Avenue Courts handed the order and allowed Jain’s bail plea.
Advocate Vivek Jain appeared for Jain.
Jain, former Minister of Water of the sooner Delhi Authorities of AAP, was arrested final month by Delhi Police’s Anti-Corruption Department. The case was registered in 2024. He was remanded to judicial custody on August 19.
Different 5 accused individuals arrested are Udit Prakash Rai (IAS) and former CEO, Delhi Jal Board; Ankit Srivastava, former contractual advisor of Delhi Jal Board; Nagendra Yadav, Proprietor M/s AN Enterprises; Raja Kumar Kurra, Proprietor M/s Euroteck Environement Pvt. Ltd and Pankaj Verma, Proprietor M/s Srijanhar.
The FIR was registered underneath Sections 7, 7A, 9 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, learn with Sections 420, 409, 418 and 120B of Indian Penal Code, 1860.
The case was registered on the criticism of Delhi Authorities’s Directorate of Vigilance, alleging large-scale irregularities, manipulation of tender situations and prison conspiracy within the tendering course of regarding augmentation and upgradation of Sewage Remedy Vegetation (STPs) of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).
It was alleged that the tendering course of concerned restrictive technical specs and situations favouring a specific expertise provider- M/s Euroteck Atmosphere Pvt. Ltd, thereby proscribing competitors and offering undue benefit to a particular non-public entity.
The ACB has alleged that non-public individuals had been allegedly in common communication with public servants and intermediaries with a view to manipulate the tender course of.
