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Satyendar Jain tells court he was in jail during tender
NDTV··20 Aug
Satyendar Jain told a Delhi court on 19 August 2026 that the Delhi Jal Board tender was floated in December 2022, after he lost his portfolio following a 30 May 2022 arrest. The Anti-Corruption Branch had arrested him on 18 August with five others over sewage-plant tender allegations. He said no file came to him after May 2022.
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What It Means For You
- If you follow Delhi water and sewer contracts, the ACB says the dispute is about tenders to upgrade 10 sewage treatment plants, with Jain among six arrested on 18 August.
- Anyone tracking Jain's earlier ED case can note he told the court he was already in jail, without a portfolio, when this tender was floated in December 2022.
- If you are watching custody orders, the Rouse Avenue court on 19 August refused to call the arrest illegal and sent him to judicial custody.
What's Happening
- Jain appeared before the Rouse Avenue court a day after the ACB arrest and denied knowledge of the tender's technical process.
- He said a Rs 1,546-crore figure did not seem right to him, while a Rs 1,938-crore tender seemed correct, according to India Today.
- Arvind Kejriwal called the allegations fake. The court proceeded on the ACB's custody request rather than on that political claim.
How The ACB Case Sits Beside The ED File
- The ACB FIR of May 2024 is the scheduled offence. The ED later traced alleged proceeds and filed a prosecution complaint in December 2025. The August arrests return the underlying corruption case to court.
- Jain remained in ED custody for nearly 22 months after May 2022. He told the court investigators were treating him as a sitting minister even after the portfolio had gone.
- Times of India quoted him saying that whatever case is made, his name is added, and that he had to rely on experts for technical work when he held eight portfolios.
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