Aam Aadmi Occasion chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday claimed that the 2024 Delhi Jal Board corruption case in opposition to former minister Satyender Jain might be “confirmed faux”, accusing the ACB of arresting him at “the behest of the BJP”.
Kejriwal’s response got here as Jain was arrested on Tuesday over alleged corruption in Delhi Jal Board (DJB) tenders. The motion was taken by the Delhi Anti-Corruption Bureau in reference to an FIR registered in 2024.
Accusing the ACB of taking motion on “BJP’s behest”, Kejriwal mentioned that “lies might be uncovered once more”, referring to Jain’s earlier acquittal in one other corruption case.
“Satyendra Jain ji has as soon as once more been arrested on the behest of the BJP. Simply a short time in the past, everybody remembers the ordeal they put him by by throwing him in jail. The earlier case was fabricated, and this case might be confirmed faux, too. How lengthy will the BJP’s dictatorship proceed like this? They throw anybody they please into jail on false prices. Their lies will as soon as once more be uncovered earlier than the nation, however who will compensate for the time spent in jail and the psychological torture endured?” he wrote on X.
Arvind Kejriwal backed Satyender Jain, saying that the complete Aam Aadmi Occasion stands “firmly” with the previous minister.
“The BJP’s cup of sins has now overflowed. Irrespective of how a lot tyranny they resort to, the top of the Modi authorities is now sure. All the Aam Aadmi Occasion and the individuals of the nation stand firmly with Satyendra Jain ji,” the previous Delhi CM added.
Satyender Jain’s arrest
The case in opposition to Satyender Jain and others was registered on the criticism of the Delhi authorities’s Directorate of Vigilance relating to large-scale irregularities, manipulation of tender circumstances, and prison conspiracy within the tendering course of for the augmentation or upgradation of the DJB’s Sewage Remedy Crops (STPs).
Other than Jain, who was then the minister of water, 5 others have additionally been arrested. These embrace former DJB CEO Udit Prakash Rai and the board’s former contractual advisor Ankit Srivastava.
The opposite accused arrested are Ankit Srivastava, a former contractual advisor with the DJB, and personal individuals Nagendra Yadav, Raja Kumar Kurra and Pankaj Verma, the ACB mentioned in an announcement.
The FIR within the case was registered in Might 2024 underneath Sections 7, 7A, 9, and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018), together with Sections 420, 409, 418, and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code.
