Aam Aadmi Celebration chief and former Delhi Water Minister Satyendar Jain, who spent 18 months in jail in a cash laundering case, has been arrested for allegedly manipulating a young course of on the Delhi Jal Board.
In an announcement issued on Tuesday, the Anti-Corruption Department in Delhi mentioned the Directorate of Vigilance had filed a grievance relating to large-scale irregularities, manipulation of tender situations and felony conspiracy within the tendering course of regarding the upgradation of sewage therapy crops of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). Six individuals had been arrested after investigation, it mentioned, together with Udit Prakash Rai, a former CEO of the DJB.
Minutes after the arrest got here to gentle, the AAP termed the transfer political and mentioned Satyendar Jain was in jail when the alleged irregularities occurred.
“What number of extra proofs are wanted that the BJP is afraid of the AAP? On the time of that Jal Board tender, Satyendra ji was in jail. How did he develop into accountable from jail? The true motive is that Satyendra Jain is the AAP co-in-charge of Punjab and elections are arising there,” AAP Nationwide Media In-charge Anurag Dhanda wrote on X.
AAP chief and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who was additionally imprisoned in reference to the liquor coverage case, mentioned the arrest was carried out on the orders of the BJP.
“Satyendra Jain has as soon as once more been arrested on the behest of the BJP. Everybody nonetheless remembers the ordeal they put him by by throwing him in jail a short while in the past. The earlier case was fabricated and this case will even be confirmed pretend,” he wrote in Hindi.
