New Delhi, Aug 6 : A Delhi court on Saturday granted interim bail to Poonam Jain, the wife of Delhi Minister Satyendar Jain, in a money laundering case.The court, in granting interim bail said she was not detained as part of the investigation.The Enforcement Directorate has said it has sufficient evidence to show the existence of Jain and his family members were engaged in money laundering and had assets that were insignificant to their sources of income in the amount of 162 million dollars.
Jain who was requesting bail, withdrawn the request.
He had insisted on medical grounds in his bail application.
His lawyer stated that Jain was discharged from the hospital and they wanted to revoke the application for bail in interim.
The case at hand is based on the one that was registered by the CBI against the accused in 2017.
According to the claims in the FIR Satyendar Jain, who was employed and working as Minister in the Delhi government, had accumulated assets that were not in proportion to his sources of income in the amount of 1,62,502,294 in the time period from February 14th, 2015 until May 31 2017, with the assistance of other people and family members, specifically his wife Poonam Jain, Ajit Prasad Jain, Sunil Kumar Jain, Vaibhav Jain and Ankush Jain.
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