Former Delhi Health Minister and AAP leader Satyendar Jain returned to Tihar Jail on Monday, hours after the Supreme Court dismissed his regular bail plea in a money laundering case. “Jain arrived at Tihar jail in the evening. The formal procedure of lodging him in the prison is on,” a jail official said. Jain left his Saraswati Vihar residence in northwest Delhi around 6 pm to surrender at the jail.
Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court rejected an oral request by Jain’s counsel to allow him to surrender in a week’s time. A bench of justices Bela M Trivedi and Pankaj Mithal asked Jain, who is out on interim bail, to surrender forthwith. On January 17, the top court had reserved its verdict on his regular bail plea.
