President gives nod to prosecute AAP leader Satyendra Jain

President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday granted sanction to prosecute AAP leader and former Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in connection with a money-laundering case against him being investigated by the Enforcement Directorate.

The Union Home Ministry had recently requested the President for granting sanction to prosecute the AAP leader under Section 218 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.

The ministry had requested the sanction on the basis of the ED's investigation and the presence of “adequate proof” against the 60-year-old politician.

The federal agency had booked Jain in a money-laundering case linked to alleged hawala dealings and arrested him in May 2022. He is currently out on bail and has been charge-sheeted by the ED.

The money-laundering case against Jain stems from an August 2017 FIR filed against him and others by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on charges of alleged possession of disproportionate assets.

The CBI filed a charge sheet in December 2018, stating that the alleged disproportionate assets were of Rs 1.47 crore, about 217 per cent more than Jain’s known sources of income from 2015-17.

Jain unsuccessfully contested the recently concluded Delhi Assembly election from Shakur Basti.