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Supreme Court grants bail to ‘middleman’
he Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to an alleged middleman arrest-ed in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in Rajasthan’s Jal Jeevan Mission scheme.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday granted bail to an alleged middleman arrest-ed in connection with a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in Rajasthan’s Jal Jeevan Mission scheme. While granting the reprieve to Sanjay Badaya, a bench of Justices B R Gavai and K V Viswanathan asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) whether the then minister of the department concerned, on whose behalf the accused allegedly received money, was made an accused in the case.
“Admittedly, the said minister has not been made an accused in the present case,” the bench observed. The ED counsel said the investigation was under-way. The bench granted bail to Badaya observing substantial evidence in the case was documentary in nature and the ED had seized the documents. It said charges were yet to be framed with over 50 witnesses still to be exam-ined and the evidence ran into about 8,000 pages.
The Centre’s water scheme aimed at providing safe and adequate drinking water through household tap connections. It was being implemented in Raja-sthan by the state’s public health engineering department.
The ED’s money laundering case stems from an FIR registered by Rajasthan’s anti-corruption bureau. Premises in Jaipur and Dausa, including the residential and official ones of senior public health engineering department officials, for-mer Rajasthan minister Mahesh Joshi and former additional chief secretary Subodh Agarwal, were searched by the ED in connection with the probe. Joshi was a minister in the previous Congress government in Rajasthan.
The apex court passed its order on Badaya’s plea, filed through advocate Vi-vek Jain, challenging the November 11 order of the Rajasthan High Court dismissing his bail plea. He was arrested by the ED in July.
During the hear-ing, the bench observed that allegations levelled against Badaya were almost similar to those made against co-accused Piyush Jain who was granted bail by the apex court in September.
