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SC rejects ex Delhi Minister's plea to consider his bail plea

By Jhanak Sharma      25 June, 2024 03:41 PM      0 Comments
SC rejects ex Delhi Ministers plea to consider his bail plea

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a plea by former Delhi Minister Satyendar Kumar Jain to consider his plea for bail, saying let the Delhi High Court first decide the matter.

The court, however, asked the Delhi High Court to decide the bail plea without unnecessarily adjourning it.

A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and S V N Bhatti asked the High Court to take a call on the matter on July 9, the next date of hearing.

The court, however, rejected Jain's plea to tag his instant petition along with similar matters pending before it on the question whether default bail can be denied on filing of incomplete charge sheet.

Appearing for Jain, senior advocate A M Singhvi submitted the issue before the court was whether the default bail can be deferred by the court on filing of incomplete charge sheet. Since the similar and identical issue was pending before this court, Jain's plea should also be tagged along with it.

The counsel submitted the High Court could not have given six weeks adjournment in Jain's case.

The bench, however, said since such an issue was pending before a three-judge bench, it cannot take a call on this.

"We are sitting in a combination of two judges. We cannot take a call on the three judges bench case. This is just a one line order to list on July 9," the bench said.

"The facts in the instant case have yet not been decided. The High Court is yet to decide on merits. If the High Court rejects the plea, then the Supreme Court is the remedy," the bench added.

Singhvi, however, questioned six weeks adjournment, saying it has been held by the Supreme Court that such cases have to be dealt with within a period of one week.

"Let the High Court decide and then we will take a call," the bench said.

In its order, the bench said, "We have heard the counsel for the petitioner...he submits that the question of law which would govern the decision of High Court is engaging attention of this court and thus this matter be tagged with Supreme Court case. We do not find merit in that submission as High Court is yet to take a call and if HC takes a decision then a remedy is before Supreme Court. It goes without saying that bail prayers are not unnecessarily adjourned and thus we hope and pray that HC takes a call in the matter when it is listed next."

Jain challenged the validity of the Delhi High Court's order of May 28 which adjourned his default bail plea to July 09, 2024 while issuing notice to the Enforcement Directorate.

He was arrested on May 30, 2022 by the Enforcement Directorate on the charge of laundering money through companies allegedly linked to him.

In May, 2023 the apex court granted interim bail to Jain for six weeks for spinal surgery. The apex court extended the interim bail by five weeks on July 24, 2023 after that the court had extended Jains interim bail several times.

On March 18, 2024, the Supreme Court had rejected an appeal by Jain against dismissal of his bail plea. The court had ordered him to surrender forthwith after cancelling his medical bail, holding that there was prima facie sufficient materials that he was guilty of offences in a money laundering case.



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