BJP,AAP brawl as video showing Delhi minister getting massage in Tihar jail leaked
Jain is seen getting foot, back, and head massages on various days in the six-minute video clip that the news agency ANI released.
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The latest cause of contention between the BJP and the ruling Aam Aadmi Party in the nation’s capital is a supposedly leaked film purporting to show Delhi minister Satyendar Jain receiving massages inside the Tihar jail.
The video was released days after jail superintendent Ajit Kumar was suspended for allegedly breaking the law to grant the AAP leader special treatment. Jain is seen getting foot, back, and head massages on various days in the six-minute video clip that the news agency ANI released. Four persons can be seen inside Jain’s cell in one of the videos, which is allegedly dated September 21 and shows the Delhi minister receiving a foot massage.
#WATCH | CCTV video emerges of jailed Delhi minister and AAP leader Satyendar Jain getting a massage inside Tihar jail. pic.twitter.com/MnmigOppnd
— ANI (@ANI) November 19, 2022
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The Delhi Government’s Department of Delhi Prisons oversees the operation of Tihar Jail.
Shehzad Poonawalla, the national spokesperson for the BJP, claimed that the video was evidence of “violation of rules in a jail run by the AAP government.”
“Satyendra Jain was getting full VVIP Mazaa? Massage inside Tihar Jail? Hawalabaaz who hasn’t got bail for 5 months get a head massage! Violation of rules in a jail run by AAP Govt,” Poonawalla tweeted. “This is how official position abused for Vasooli & massage thanks to Kejriwal.”
Arvind Kejriwal Vasooli & VVIP massage company inside Tihar !
Motto: Kattar Corrupt ko Saza nahi denge Mazaa ! pic.twitter.com/eBsUHTLIUa
— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) November 19, 2022
Manish Sisodia, the deputy chief minister of Delhi, said that the massage was a suggested kind of physiotherapy and accused the BJP of “mocking the sickness” of a patient. Despite the court’s directions to ED to the contrary, according to Sisodia, the footage was leaked.
“Satyendar Jain has undergone two spine-injury operations. He has been prescribed regular physiotherapy by the doctor. Since Covid, there is a patch in his lungs which has not been cured yet,” he added.
Jain was taken into custody by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in May of this year in accordance with the anti-money laundering statute (PMLA).
The investigation being conducted by the central agency against Jain is based on a 2017 case brought by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), in which it was claimed that the AAP leader and his wife Poonam Jain had accumulated disproportionate assets totalling Rs. 1.47 crore between February 2015 and May 2017, which was 217.20 percent more than their known sources of income.
