New Delhi: Amid allegations of Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) chief Satyendar Jain receiving beneficial remedy in Tihar, a video has now surfaced of the Delhi minister assembly with a suspended jail superintendent in his cell.
The third such leaked video of Jain’s keep on the jail complicated exhibits him assembly Ajit Kumar, who was superintendent of jail quantity seven till earlier this month. Within the earlier movies, Jain was seen getting a therapeutic massage reportedly from an undertrail accused of rape and consuming ‘outdoors meals’.
Jails in Delhi, together with Tihar, are below the executive management of the Delhi authorities with the principal secretary (Dwelling) serving as administrative secretary of the jail division.
The most recent video exhibits Jain in his cell, speaking to a few different males who go away as quickly as they see Ajit Kumar, then superintendent of jail quantity 7, coming into. Kumar pulls up a chair at Jain’s bedside and the 2 will be seen Chatting. The timestamp on the video shared by Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) leaders means that the video dates again to 12 September.
Ajit Kumar, the superintendent seen within the video, was suspended earlier this month for allegedly facilitating “particular remedy” to Jain who has been in Tihar since 31 Could in reference to a cash laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
Launching a scathing assault on the Arvind Kejriwal-led authorities in Delhi after the third leaked video surfaced on social media, Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta wrote on Twitter that it appeared just like the minister was holding a “shahi darbar (royal court docket)” and that the jail official went there to “mark his attendance”.
Delhi BJP MP Parvesh Verma, addressing a press conference in Delhi Saturday, demanded Jain’s removing as well being minister. “As we speak is Structure Day, and a few individuals sitting on constitutional posts within the Delhi authorities are brazenly flouting the Structure. That is occurring for the primary time within the historical past of the world {that a} cupboard minister is jailed for corruption and he isn’t being sacked from the submit,” mentioned Verma.
Requested in regards to the third leaked video, Kejriwal mentioned throughout a press convention earlier at the moment that the general public will give its verdict when votes are solid for the Municipal Company of Delhi (MCD) polls subsequent month. “MCD election, in two traces — ten movies of BJP vs ten issues finished by Kejriwal, and 10 ensures. Public will reply on 4 December,” he said in a tweet later.
This would be the maiden MCD election for the reason that unification of the three municipal firms of Delhi which trifurcated in 2012. The BJP has held on to energy in all three erstwhile MCDs for the final 15 years.
ThePrint had reported earlier that the BJP, after a number of brainstorming periods over the past week, has determined to carry press conferences daily to focus on the AAP authorities in Delhi on problems with alleged corruption. This was a part of a method crafted by BJP nationwide normal secretary B.L. Santosh, which the occasion believes can also dent the AAP’s electoral prospects in Gujarat the place it’s searching for to emerge as BJP’s major challenger.
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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