: Delhi HC dismisses plea to disqualify Satyendar Jain as minister, MLA #IndiaNEWS The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition to declare Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain as a person of “unsound

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Delhi HC dismisses plea to disqualify Satyendar Jain as minister, MLA #IndiaNEWS
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a petition to declare Aam Aadmi Party leader Satyendar Jain as a person of “unsound mind� and his disqualify him as an MLA and a minister in the Arvind Kejriwal government, reported Live Law on Sunday.Jain is a minister without a portfolio in the Delhi government. He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on May 30 in a money laundering case and is currently in judicial custody.The money laundering case is based on a first information report filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2017. The agency has alleged that between February 2015 and May 2017, Jain acquired assets disproportionate to his income.The public interest litigation to declare Jain of “unsound mind� was filed Ashish Kumar Srivastava, who identified himself as a social worker.Srivastava claimed that when Enforcement Directorate officials confronted Jain with some documents during the investigation, the minister had said that he did not remember having signed the papers as he had lost memory due to a severe case of the coronavirus disease.The petitioner sought Jain to be dismissed as a Delhi minister citing that someone could take undue advantage of his memory loss due to which residents of the city could have to suffer. The petition also sought making all decisions...Read more

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