New Delhi, June 27 : A Delhi Special Court on Monday extended the judicial custody of Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain, arrested in violation of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), to 14 days.
Special Judge (PC Act) Geetanjali Goyal passed the order after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) produced Jain, who is currently in hospital, through video-conferencing.
Earlier in the day, the court had refused to extend the judicial custody of Jain, when neither Jain nor his counsel appeared before the court at the time of proceedings. The court then directed the ED to produce Jain through video-conferencing.
On June 18, the Special Judge had dismissed the bail application of Jain, after hearing the submissions made by ED. The court had, on June 13, sent Jain to 14 days judicial custody, which expired today.
ED had arrested Jain on May 30 in connection with assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
ED had submitted it has conducted raids at the premises belonging to Ankush Jain, Vaibhav Jain, Naveen Jain and Siddharth Jain, Directors of Ram Prakash Jewellers Pvt Ltd; GS Matharoo, Chairman of Lala Sher Singh Jivan Vigyan Trust, which runs the Prudence Group of Schools; Yogesh Kumar Jain, Director in Ram Prakash Jewellers Pvt Ltd; father-in-law of Ankush Jain and Lala Sher Singh of Jivan Vigyan Trust.
During search, various incriminating documents and digital records were seized.
Following the registration of a case by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2017 under Section 13(2) read with 13(1)(e) of the PC Act, 1988 against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain, the ED initiated money laundering investigation into the case.
CBI had filed a charge sheet on December 3, 2018 against Jain, his wife Poonam Jain and other accused by alleging that Jain, while holding the office as Minister in the Government of Delhi, during the period between February 14, 2015 to May 31, 2017, had acquired assets, which were disproportionate to his known sources of income.
ED had earlier provisionally attached the immovable properties worth Rs 4.81 crore belonging to companies, beneficially-owned and controlled by Jain on March 31 and arrested him on May 30 under Section 19 of PMLA.
