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Court reserves order on Satyendar Jain bail plea for Sept 3
Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday reserved its order on the bail plea of AAP leader Satyendar Jain in the alleged Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage treatment plant (STP) tender scam case.…
Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Tuesday reserved its order on the bail plea of AAP leader Satyendar Jain in the alleged Delhi Jal Board (DJB) sewage treatment plant (STP) tender scam case. The court will pronounce its order on September 3.
Jain was arrested on August 18 by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) over alleged irregularities, manipulation of tender conditions and criminal conspiracy in the tendering process for upgrading STPs under DJB. The ACB has arrested six people in the case, including former DJB CEO Udit Prakash Rai and four private contractors.
The case stems from a complaint by the Delhi government's Directorate of Vigilance. The ACB alleges tender conditions were tailored to favour M/s Euroteck Environment Pvt. Ltd. by incorporating restrictive technical specifications that limited competition. The probe into the money trail is ongoing.
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This is the second major graft case Satyendar Jain faces after the Enforcement Directorate arrested him in 2022 under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in a separate hawala-linked matter. In the DJB tender case, the ACB's FIR cites the Prevention of Corruption Act as amended in 2018, which criminalises the act of taking a bribe by a public servant but also makes giving a bribe an offence. The key issue before the court will be whether the electronic evidence of alleged document exchange between officials and private parties meets the threshold of criminal conspiracy. The outcome of the bail hearing on September 3 will signal how strong the court views the ACB's evidentiary chain at this stage.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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