A Delhi Special court issued a contempt of court notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday for leaking the CCTV footage of AAP leader and Delhi minister Satyender Jain who is jailed for a money laundering case in Tihar jail.
Special Judge Vikas Dhull issued a notice to the ED and fixed the matter for November 21, 2022, for hearing.
“Special court issues contempt of court notice to ED on Satyendar Jain’s application for leaking Tihar CCTV footage to BJP & others. The court will hear on Monday how did BJP get the confidential footage and why it was circulated ?” Satyendar Jain’s lawyer Mohd Irshad tweeted.
Earlier in the day, Jain’s legal team alleged that ED has leaked the CCTV video despite the undertaking given in the court.
A CCTV video of Delhi minister Satyendar Jain getting a full body massage in Tihar Jail emerged on social media on Saturday morning – two days after demands to shift the minister from the prison were raised by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The purported CCTV footage dated September 13 shows the minister lying on his bed and reading some papers while a man sitting next to him is seen massaging his foot.
In another video, shared by BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on his official Twitter handle, a man is massaging the Delhi minister’s legs and back before proceeding to give him a full head massage. The videos surfaced on social media on Saturday, around 10 days after the ED accused Satyender Jain, who was arrested in a money laundering case, of getting special treatment inside the Tihar jail.
“Unknown persons gave massages and foot massages to Jain, even beyond curfew hours. He was given special food,” the ED had said in the court. Soon after this, the Superintendent of Delhi’s Tihar jail, Ajit Kumar, was also suspended for the alleged VIP treatment of jailed Delhi minister.
Satyender Jain was arrested and has been in jail since June in connection with a money laundering case, and a Delhi court also denied his bail application on Thursday.
(With ANI inputs)
