A Delhi court on Monday remanded the AAP government’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain, who was arrested in violation of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), to 14-day judicial custody.
The Rouse Avenue Court of Special Judge (PC Act) Geetanjali Goyal sent Jain to judicial custody for 14 days in the money laundering case. Meanwhile, a Delhi court will hear his bail application on Tuesday.
On June 9, the court had granted ED the custody of Jain till June 13, after the national agency submitted that they need to confront him with the people whose houses were raided.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had registered a case 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, following which, the ED had initiated an investigation into the case.
The 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 Jain on May 30 under section 19 of the PMLA.
