From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court granted interim bail to ex-AAP Minister Satyendra Jain for six weeks on medical grounds. This comes a day after Jain, who has been in Tihar Jail since May last year following his arrest on money laundering charges, was admitted to the ICU at Lok Nayak Hospital after he slipped inside the prison bathroom.
Jain has lost a lot of weight over the last year. A source in the state Health Department said that he faces difficulty in moving, and frequently stumbles and falls. According to an AAP official, he suffers from acute lumbar pain, vertigo, and chronic lower back pain due as a result of a slipped disc, and has been advised urgent spinal surgery.
Meanwhile, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sought a meeting with Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge for the party’s support in Parliament against the Centre’s Ordinance over control of services of bureaucrats. In a tweet, Kejriwal said, that he wanted to discuss “general assault on federal structure and prevailing political situation”
A Delhi court granted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi a no-objection certificate for issuance of an “ordinary passport” to him after he surrendered his diplomatic passport upon his disqualification as an MP, news agency PTI reported. The Rouse Avenue court granted an NOC for three years to Gandhi. “I’m partly allowing your application. Not for 10 years but three years,” the judge told Gandhi’s lawyer.
The Congress leader, whose sentence has been suspended in the defamation case filed over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s surname, had moved the court seeking a no-objection certificate on Tuesday.
