New Delhi: A court has granted the Enforcement Directorate custody of the Delhi health minister Satyendar Jain till June 9 as Aam Aadmi Party national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the case against him “completely fake and politically motivated”.The ED was represented in court by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. Jain was represented by advocate Hariharan, who alleged that the grounds of arrest in this case had not moved an “inch” from the CBI charge sheet.The ED on May 30, arrested Jain in a five-year-old money laundering case which had arisen out of a First Information Report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in August 2017.Jain and others were accused of possessing of “disproportionate assets.”His arrest has come at a time when Jain – as the AAP’s in charge of the poll-bound Himachal Pradesh – has been busy with the party’s organisational and political affairs.AAP chief Kejriwal on Tuesday asserted that his government and AAP are “hardcore honest”.“I have studied the case against Jain. It is completely fake and motivated by political reasons and he has been deliberately framed. We have faith in the judiciary. Jain will come out clean and the fake case will not sustain,” the chief minister told reporters during an inspection of a road development programme of his government.“They will say anything. If there were even one per cent substance in it it, I would have taken action,” Kejriwal said, when asked about the opposition Congress and BJP demand to remove Jain.Delhi units of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress have welcomed Jain’s arrest in the case. The BJP has demanded that Kejriwal should remove Jain from his Cabinet.In January, ahead of the Punjab Assembly polls, Kejriwal claimed he had learnt from sources that Jain could be arrested by the ED.(With PTI inputs)
