Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024
Father of Mohalla Clinics made to suffer for 28.5 months in jail, finally got bail on 18 Oct 2024
-- He was never arrested in original CBI case and was given Bail by Court
-- After 5 years of CBI case, he was arrested under PMLA law (made for terrorists & smugglers)
-- 1 Judge was transferred and 2 judges changed during course of his case proceedings
-- Remember NO Conviction yet, only allegedly cooked up allegations
Allegation - During the period 2015-16 the companies, where Satyendar Jain is only a share holder, received accommodation entries to the tune of ₹4.81 crore from shell (paper) companies against cash transferred to Kolkata-based entry operators through the hawala route
Religious Jain fast for ~1 year in Jail & Lost 35 Kgs: "Being a strict Jain religious observer, he was on a religious fast during his Jail term for more than a Year
-- Did not have cooked food, pulses, grains and milk products"
-- Reason: He was not able to perform Daily visit to temple
¶ Timeline of Sufferings
- Aug 2017: FIR filed by CBI & subsequent Bail later
- 30 May 2022: Arrested by ED
- 30 July 2022 - Delhi court pulls up ED
- 9 Sept 2022 - Delhi Court to ED - "Where is criminal activity?"
- 23 Sept 2022 - Case transferred to New Judge
- 15 May 2023: SJ moved SC for bail
- 26 May 2023: Medical Bail due to Major Spinal Injury during his jail term
- 01 Sept 2023: SC judge PK Mishra recused himself from case
- 14 Dec 2023: SC judge AS Bopanna got changed
- 17 Jan 2024: Bail verdict reserved
- 18 Mar 2024: Bail rejected by SC[1]
- 28 May 2024: Delhi HC (Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma’s bench) adjourned unnecessarily(SC's observations) to 9 July 2024 in Default Bail plea[2]
- 18 Oct 2024: Got Bail[3]
¶ Why Bail under PMLA so Difficult?
¶ Part 1: Allegations & Defense[4]
Chief Spokesperson and MLA Saurabh Bhardwaj explains the truth behind the allegations against Satyendra Jain
¶ Propaganda #1:
CBI has accused that Sanjay and Suresh used to work for Satyendra Jain since 2010 and handled his hawala transactions by means of calls to Kolkata using a landline number 011-27314231. It has been accused that the calls were made during 2010 to 2016
Truth:
-- The phone number mentioned above never had STD facility
-- Moreover the phone has been disconnected since the year 2014
-- All the call details have been procured for this number. No calls were made to Kolkata from 2010 to 2014
-- People named Sanjay and Suresh have never worked with the Minister
¶ Propaganda #2:
CBI has accused that 4 people have come forward and spoken against Satyendra Jain
Truth:
The truth is that all 4 confessions are false and made under pressure from the central agency
-- Satyendra Jain demanded that all 4 witnesses to be brought in front of him
When the Income Tax department got one of those persons named Babloo Pathak to face Satyendra Jain, it didn’t take him even 5 minutes to admit that the minister had no role in the alleged transactions
Then the minister requested to get the other 3 witnesses too to which the Income tax department gave in writing that this will not be done
This proves that the CBI and the Income Tax department are being used as tools by the Central government to malign the AAP government
¶ Part 2: CBI case, No arrest & Bail - 3.5 years
Sep 27 2016 - The Income Tax department has issued summons to Jain in connection with its tax evasion probe against certain Kolkata-based firms[5]
Jan 6 2017 - Jain gets another I-T notice in hawala case[6]
August 2017 - FIR filed by the CBI against him and others on charges of alleged possession of disproportionate assets (DA)[7]
August 2017 - The PMLA case was registered by the ED on the basis of CBI FIR[8]
April 2018 - ED questioned Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain [8:1]
December 2018 - Charge sheet filed by CBI stating that the alleged DA was to the tune of ₹1.47 crore, about 217 per cent more than his known sources of income, during 2015-17[8:2]
September 6, 2019 - Regular bail granted in the CBI case[9]
¶ Part 3: ED & Stringent PMLA - Arrested for 2+ years, No bail yet
Mar 22, 2022: Satyendar Jain made Himachal Pradesh in-charge of AAP for Assembly elections later that year
April 2022 - ED Attached land / Immovable assets - land in Delhi worth ₹4.81 crore belonging to companies linked to the case — Akinchan Developers, Indo Metal Impex, Paryas Infosolutions, Mangalyatan Projects, and JJ Ideal Estate — and Jain’s relatives Swati Jain, Sushila Jain, and Indu Jain[7:1]
May 30 2022 - Enforcement Directorate(ED) arrested Jain, in an alleged money laundering case under stringent PMLA[10]
May 31 2022 - Arvind Kejriwal defend Satyendar Jain, while addressing a press conference "I have personally read all the papers and the case filed against Satyendra Jain by ED and it is completely false. We have a very strict and honest government. We are hard-core patriots; we can get beheaded but can never betray the country. His arrest is politically motivated,"[10:1]
¶ Part 3a: Search at SJ residence & misleading claims by ED
June 6 2022 - ED conducted searches at the residence of Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain & other accused in the case[10:2]
June 6 2022 - Misleading claim by ED of cash Rs. 2.85 crore and 133 gold coins weighing 1.80 kg “at the premises of Satyendar Kumar Jain and others” i.e. under collective seizure (No individual accused details). The agency did not give a breakup of what was seized from which location[11]
June 7 2022 - The seizure memo of the ED raid given to the wife and daughter of Satyendar Jain clarified NO seizure from Satyendar Jain[12]
June 7 2022 - "In the memo, it was mentioned that various documents, one digital device, and Rs 2,79,200 was recovered during the search. However, the same was not seized,"[13]
¶ Part 3b: Delhi Court Judge pulls up ED during bail hearing
July 30 2022 - Delhi court pulls ED up for ‘wrongly’ linking Satyendar Jain[14]
Court said: "He was neither the director nor associated with them."
September 09 2022 - Court to ED - "Where is criminal activity?"
Court rebuked ED - "Why the Enforcement Directorate went beyond the Central Bureau of Investigation’s case to look into alleged proceeds of crime that are not mentioned in the chargesheet."[15]
¶ Part 3c: ED gets the Judge transferred
September 19 2022 - ED seeks transfer of trial (when the bail hearing of all the accused was at the final stage) and Delhi court stays proceedings against Satyendar Jain [16]
September 23 2022 - Delhi court allows ED plea seeking transfer case to new judge[17][18]
Oct 01 2022 - Delhi High Court dismisses Satyendra Jain's plea against transfer of his bail plea[19]
¶ Part 3d: Election Season and alleged defamatory controversies
14 October 2022: Himachal Pradesh election announced by the Election Commission of India. Satyendar Jain was State incharge of Himachal Pradesh when he was arrested.[20]
Nov 1, 2022 - Conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar says Paid Rs 10 crore to Satyendar Jain in the name of 'protection' inside Tihar Jail[21]
04 November 2022 - Delhi State Election Commission annouces MCD elections[22]
Nov 17 2022 - Bail Denied by Delhi Court[23]
Nov 19, 2022 - BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla posted a video from SJ Jail cell where he is receiving foot massage by cell mate. SJ lawyers allege leak by ED[24]
Nov 23, 2022 - Another video leak showed SJ having Raw veggies & other food from inside his jail cell[25]
Nov 23, 2022 - The AAP hit back, with deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia “BJP is panicking due to the fear of losing the MCD elections and is defaming the Aam Aadmi Party by publicising fake videos everyday,”[25:1]
¶ Part 3e: Religious Fast & 35Kg weight lost[26][27][28]
SJ is "a strict adherent follower of Jainism" and from the day of Jain's arrest on May 31, he has not been able to visit a Jain temple
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Seeking a direction to Tihar jail officials to provide him food items according to his religious beliefs
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He has been surviving only on fruits, vegetables, seeds and dry fruits or dates. This he was purchasing from his own quota of ration available to all inmates.
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The jail administration has stopped providing applicant with fruits or vegetables, mixed seeds, dry fruits and dates since Mid November
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26th November 2022: Court rejects Satyendar Jain’s plea seeking special food
Fast Forward to 22 May 2023 - Lost 35 kgs: Jailed AAP leader Satyendar Jain admitted to Safdarjung Hospital[28:1]
¶ Part 3f: Delhi High Court Proceedings
December 1 2022 - Delhi High Court seeks ED’s response to bail petition[20:1]
December 20 2022 - Adjourned the bail plea for hearing on January 5, 2023[29]
Jan 5 2023 - Tihar top officials accuse jailed minister Satyendar Jain of intimidation[30]
Jan 13 2023 - Sukesh Chandrasekhar Allegation "Threatened, harassed by Kejriwal, Satyendar Jain"[31]
Feb 28 2023 - Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain resign[32]
Mar 22 2023 - High Court Reserves Order Jain's Bail Request[33]
April 06 2023 - HC dismisses Jain's bail plea[34]
"an influential person” who may “potentially tamper with the evidence”
¶ Part 3g: SC proceedings
15 May 2023 - Jain moves Supreme Court seeking bail in money laundering case[35]
22 May 2023 - Jain lost 35 Kgs, rushed to Safdarjung Hospital[28:2]
26 May 2023 - SC grants 6-week interim bail Jain on medical grounds for spinal surgery[36]
10 July 2023 - Jain's interim bail extended till July 24[37]
24 July 2023 - Interim Bail Extended By Supreme Court Till September 1[9:1]
1 Sept 2023 -Supreme Court judge PK Mishra recused himself from hearing the bail plea, bail extended till September 12[38]
12 Sept 2023 - SC extends Satyendar Jain's interim bail till September 25[39]
14 Dec 2023 - SC judge got changed for SJ bail case[40]
17 Jan 2024 - SC Reserves Verdict Bail Request[41]
18 Mar 2024 - Bail rejected by SC[1:1]
28 May 2024 - Delhi HC (Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma’s bench) adjourned unnecessarily(SC's observations) to 9 July 2024 in Default Bail plea[2:1]
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