Satyendar Jain’s plea to be heard today

CONTEMPT PLEA AGAINST ED

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court will hear on Monday a plea moved by jailed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) minister Satyendar Jain seeking contempt proceedings against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for allegedly leaking CCTV footage to media.

Special Judge Vikas Dhull on Saturday directed the agency to file its response on Jain’s plea, accusing ED of leaking the CCTV footage purportedly showing the politician getting a massage inside Tihar jail “despite an undertaking given in the court”.

On Saturday, videos purportedly showing Jain receiving massage and meeting visitors in his prison cell emerged, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress demanding Jain’s sacking.bjp national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia had said the video shows that Jain was being treated as a VIP in prison.

ED had during a bail hearing earlier accused Jain of getting special treatment inside the jail. The court had ordered the ED and Jain’s legal team not to leak any content of affidavits and video in this regard and had taken their undertakings in the matter.the court had, however, refused to put any restriction on or pass any direction to the media.

It had on November 17 denied bail to Jain and two others in the case. BJP MP Manoj Tiwari on Sunday demanded a probe those who met Jain in jail and said that these people need to be identified.