Satyendar Jain, Delhi Jal Board ex-CEO among 6 arrested for 'scam'

NEW DELHI: Nearly two years after Satyendar Jain, former minister in erstwhile AAP govt, was released on bail from Tihar Jail in an alleged ED money laundering case filed, Delhi govt's Anti-Corruption Branch Tuesday arrested him, along with Delhi Jal Board ex-CEO Udit Prakash Rai and four others in an alleged DJB scam.Jain had spent nearly one-and-a-half years in incarceration after being arrested in the money laundering case on May 31, 2022. He was granted bail on Oct 18, 2024.According to joint commissioner of police Vikramjit Singh, the case stems from a formal complaint filed by the directorate of vigilance which alleges widespread irregularities, manipulation of tender criteria and illicit collusion in the tendering process for the augmentation and upgradation of DJB's sewage treatmen