Look who paid safety cash to jailed AAP chief
Express News Service
NEW DELHI: Incarcerated conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar has claimed that he has paid Rs 10 crore to jailed Aam Aadmi Party minister Satyendra Jain as “protection money”. In a letter addressed to Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Ok Saxena, Chandrashekhar mentioned he had identified the AAP chief since 2015. The letter added {that a} whole quantity of Rs 50 crore was paid to the AAP as he was promised an necessary social gathering place in south India.
“After my arrest in 2017, I was lodged in Tihar Jail and was visited multiple times by Mr Satyendra Jain, who held the portfolio of jail minister… In 2019 again, I was visited by Jain, whose secretary asked me to pay Rs 2 crore every month as protection money and to get basic facilities inside the jail,” the hand-written letter of Chandrashekhar, which was despatched by means of his lawyer, learn.
Chandrashekhar, presently lodged at Delhi’s Mandoli jail, was arrested for allegedly extorting cash from high-profile folks, together with former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh’s spouse Aditi. He was shifted from Tihar jail to Mandoli jail in Delhi in August this 12 months, after he made repeated requests for a switch to a different jail. He claimed he had obtained demise threats from inside Tihar jail.
This month, he once more approached the Supreme Court with a request to shift him from Mandoli jail. However, the Supreme Court declined to entertain his plea. Interestingly, on October 19, days after the letter was posted, the L-G granted approval to the financial offences wing of Delhi Police to analyze 82 officers of the prisons division for his or her alleged involvement within the organised crime syndicate run by Chandrashekhar from inside jail premises.
In the letter, Chandrashekhar claimed he had disclosed the funds made to Jain, the AAP and likewise D-G Prisons, to a CBI probe workforce final month. There was no fast response from the L-G’s workplace.
NEW DELHI: Incarcerated conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar has claimed that he has paid Rs 10 crore to jailed Aam Aadmi Party minister Satyendra Jain as “protection money”. In a letter addressed to Delhi Lieutenant Governor V Ok Saxena, Chandrashekhar mentioned he had identified the AAP chief since 2015. The letter added {that a} whole quantity of Rs 50 crore was paid to the AAP as he was promised an necessary social gathering place in south India.
“After my arrest in 2017, I was lodged in Tihar Jail and was visited multiple times by Mr Satyendra Jain, who held the portfolio of jail minister… In 2019 again, I was visited by Jain, whose secretary asked me to pay Rs 2 crore every month as protection money and to get basic facilities inside the jail,” the hand-written letter of Chandrashekhar, which was despatched by means of his lawyer, learn.
Chandrashekhar, presently lodged at Delhi’s Mandoli jail, was arrested for allegedly extorting cash from high-profile folks, together with former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh’s spouse Aditi. He was shifted from Tihar jail to Mandoli jail in Delhi in August this 12 months, after he made repeated requests for a switch to a different jail. He claimed he had obtained demise threats from inside Tihar jail.
This month, he once more approached the Supreme Court with a request to shift him from Mandoli jail. However, the Supreme Court declined to entertain his plea. Interestingly, on October 19, days after the letter was posted, the L-G granted approval to the financial offences wing of Delhi Police to analyze 82 officers of the prisons division for his or her alleged involvement within the organised crime syndicate run by Chandrashekhar from inside jail premises.
In the letter, Chandrashekhar claimed he had disclosed the funds made to Jain, the AAP and likewise D-G Prisons, to a CBI probe workforce final month. There was no fast response from the L-G’s workplace.
