Court closes graft case against Satyendar Jain after CBI finds ‘no illegal gains’

A special court on Monday accepted the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) closure report in a graft case against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain in awarding a tender to a private company during his tenure as the Public Works Department Department Department Minister, noting that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe “found no illegal gains or wrongful loss to the government”, thus proving there was no conspiracy or corruption.

Responding to the development, AAP said in a statement, “All the cases filed against AAP leaders are false. With time, the truth will come out in all cases.”

Special Judge Dig Vinay Singh (Prevention of Corruption Act) said, “When the CBI could not find any evidence of criminal conspiracy, abuse of power, pecuniary gain, or wrongful loss to the Exchequer, and the alleged acts are at most administrative irregularities, no offence under Section 13(1)(d) of the PC Act or criminal conspiracy is established.”