AAP leader Satyendar Jain emerges from prison on bail after two years: ‘Atishi ji you will also have to go to jail…’
AAP leader Satyendar Jain was released from jail after over two years related to the Delhi excise policy scam. He claims his arrest aimed to hinder AAP projects and alleges that other senior members were targeted to deter public political involvement.
AAP leader Satyendar Jain was released from jail on Friday — more than two years after he was imprisoned in connection with the Delhi excise policy scam case. The former minister claimed that he had been arrested to stall the AAP government's projects such as Mohalla Clinics and Yamuna river cleaning. He also alleged that senior members of the party — such as Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia and Sanjay Singh — had been arrested to dissuade common people from joining politics in the country.
“Sanjay ji, Kejriwal ji, Manish ji and I are out now, we will do all the work and show now. Atishi ji, you will also have to go to jail, but we will continue to fight against injustice,” he said.
Jain also told a crowd of AAP leaders and workers outside the Tihar jail that the party would continue its “fight against injustice and work for the common man” in spite of such hurdles.
“I was arrested to stop Arvind Kejriwal’s work like building mohalla clinics, constructing the highest number of hospital beds in the world in Delhi, working on cleaning the Yamuna—I was arrested to put an end to all of this. We will do all the work and show the world what we are capable of…” he added.
The Rouse Avenue Court on Friday granted bail to AAP leader Jain in a money laundering case. He was arrested in May 2022 in this case and Special Judge Vishal Gogne granted bail to Satyendra Jain today. He has been granted bail on a furnishing bail bond of Rs. 50000 and a surety bond in the like amount.
The development comes exactly a month after AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal was granted bail by the Supreme Court in connection with the same case.
(With inputs from agencies)
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First Published:18 Oct 2024, 08:57 PM IST
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