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Satyendar Jain bail: SC directs classes courtroom to listen to on Sept 22 ED plea in search of switch of listening to

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By PTI

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a classes courtroom right here to take up on September 22 an Enforcement Directorate utility in search of switch of bail listening to of Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a cash laundering case to a different choose.

Observing that any accused is entitled to an expeditious listening to of his bail plea, a three-judge bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud requested the principal district and classes choose of the Rouse Avenue courtroom to take up the petition for listening to.

“We clarify that any party aggrieved by the decision on transfer petition can seek appropriate remedies available in law. The forum for hearing of bail will depend upon the decision of the District Judge,” stated the bench additionally comprising Justices Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha.

Principal District and Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Gupta had on September 19 stayed the proceedings of the bail listening to and issued discover to Jain and different co-accused within the case on an ED utility in search of switch of the case to a different choose.

The ED had arrested Jain and two others in a case primarily based on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR lodged in opposition to the Aam Aadmi Party chief in 2017 beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Jain is accused of getting laundered cash by 4 corporations linked to him.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed a classes courtroom right here to take up on September 22 an Enforcement Directorate utility in search of switch of bail listening to of Delhi minister Satyendar Jain in a cash laundering case to a different choose.

Observing that any accused is entitled to an expeditious listening to of his bail plea, a three-judge bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud requested the principal district and classes choose of the Rouse Avenue courtroom to take up the petition for listening to.

“We clarify that any party aggrieved by the decision on transfer petition can seek appropriate remedies available in law. The forum for hearing of bail will depend upon the decision of the District Judge,” stated the bench additionally comprising Justices Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha.

Principal District and Sessions Judge Vinay Kumar Gupta had on September 19 stayed the proceedings of the bail listening to and issued discover to Jain and different co-accused within the case on an ED utility in search of switch of the case to a different choose.

The ED had arrested Jain and two others in a case primarily based on a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) FIR lodged in opposition to the Aam Aadmi Party chief in 2017 beneath the Prevention of Corruption Act.

Jain is accused of getting laundered cash by 4 corporations linked to him.