New Delhi [India], August 19 (ANI): The Anti Corruption Bureau on Wednesday produced AAP chief and former Delhi Minister of Water Satyendar Kumar Jain and different accused on the Rouse Avenue Court. They have been arrested in an ACB FIR registered on 11.05.2024 beneath Sections 7, 7A, 9, 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 (as amended in 2018) learn with Sections 42, 409, 418, 120-B IPC.
Meanwhile, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday questioned Union Home Minister Amit Shah over the arrest of former Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB), alleging that the company was pressured to make the arrest.
In a put up on X, Kejriwal stated, ‘Amit Shah ji ought to clarify why he received Satyendra Jain arrested by pressuring the investigation company.’
In one other put up, Kejriwal claimed that an ACB official had revealed that there was no plan to arrest Jain till Wednesday morning, alleging that the choice was taken after a name from Shah.
‘An Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) official revealed – There was no plan for ACB to arrest Satyendra Jain till morning. Then within the afternoon, a direct name got here from Amit Shah ji saying, ‘Arrest him.’ That’s when the arrest was made.’
Kejriwal additional alleged that arrests had been now not being made on the idea of whether or not an individual had dedicated against the law.
‘Clearly, now arrests do not occur based mostly on whether or not somebody has dedicated against the law or not, however somewhat on whom these two need to arrest.’Meanwhile, Satyendar Jain was taken to the Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday, a day after his arrest by the ACB in reference to alleged irregularities within the tendering course of for augmentation and upgradation of Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).
Earlier, BJP MP and former AAP chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday levelled severe allegations towards AAP nationwide convenor Arvind Kejriwal, alleging that he ran a ‘store of corruption’ in Delhi for a decade and has now shifted his operations to Punjab.
Speaking to reporters, Maliwal alleged that Kejriwal intentionally averted holding any ministry throughout his tenure as Delhi Chief Minister in order that he might shift blame onto his ministers each time a rip-off surfaced.
‘In the final 10 years in Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal was operating a store of corruption. Whether it was the varsity classroom building rip-off, the liquor rip-off, or numerous different scams that these individuals orchestrated. And if we observe carefully, Arvind Kejriwal operated very shrewdly,’ Maliwal stated.BPCL MAK lubricantsBPCL MAK lubricants<>’During the ten years he remained the Chief Minister of Delhi, he didn’t maintain cost of a single ministry. His modus operandi could be very clear: he orchestrated corruption by way of his ministers, and the second a minister was uncovered, he would shift all the blame onto that minister,’ she stated.
The ACB has arrested six individuals in reference to an FIR registered on May 11, 2024, beneath provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, as amended in 2018, together with related provisions associated to dishonest, prison breach of belief and prison conspiracy. (ANI)