The Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendar Kumar Jain on Monday in connection with a money laundering case, prompting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) to allege that the action was taken as he was made in-charge of Himachal Pradesh where Assembly polls are due later this year.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said Mr. Jain was arrested in an “eight-year-old fake case”. He had appeared before the ED seven times in the same case, but was never arrested earlier. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had registered a case against him, but he was given a clean chit, said Mr. Singh.
