2 prisoners shifted with AAP’s Satyendar Jain citing ‘loneliness’, Tihal Jail SP issues notice

New Delhi: The jail administration has issued a show cause notice to the superintendent of jail number 2 of Tihar. 7 for shifting two people to his cell on the request of former Delhi minister and jailed Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain. This comes after Jain wrote an application from inside Tihar Jail, requesting the prison authorities to keep him in a cell with two more inmates. Citing depression and loneliness, Jain had requested the Tihar Jail Superintendent on May 11 to stay at Jail No. 11. A Tihar Jail official said two more people would be kept with him.

Jain stated in his application that he was feeling depressed and low due to loneliness. A psychiatrist suggested him for more social interaction and requested him to be with at least two more persons. Also provided the names of two persons from the same ward number.

However, the jail authorities sent the AAP leader’s fellow inmates back to their cells with a show cause notice.

According to the jail administration, the superintendent took this decision without informing the administration, while according to the procedure, no prisoner can be transferred to another cell without informing the administration and taking permission.

Jain has been lodged in Tihar Jail since June last year.

Earlier in November last year, a CCTV footage went viral and the AAP leader was seen giving a full body massage from inside the jail.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had launched a money-laundering probe against Satyendra under several sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 on the basis of a First Information Report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on August 24, 2017. Jain, Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain.

The CBI had filed a charge sheet on December 3, 2018 against Satyendra Kumar Jain, Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain.

The chargesheet mentions that Satyendar Jain, while holding the position of a minister in the Delhi government during the period from February 14, 2015 to May 31, 2017, had acquired assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

The CBI has charged Satyendar Kumar Jain and others with offenses under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.

Jain was arrested in April this year after the ED attached immovable properties worth Rs 4.81 crore owned by companies named Akinchan Developers Pvt. Ltd., Indo Metal Impex Pvt. Ltd., and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002, registered Jain, his wife Poonam Jain, and others in a case of disproportionate assets and money laundering.

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