AAP leader Satyendar Jain arrested in Delhi Jal Board bribery case

New Delhi: The Delhi Anti-Corruption Branch Tuesday arrested senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and former Delhi cabinet minister Satyendar Kumar Jain as part of a probe into allegations of irregularities and manipulation of tender conditions for the upgradation of Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB).

Jain is the co-in-charge of the Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab where elections are due early next year.

The arrests come nearly a year after the ACB had booked Jain, Rai and other accused on the complaint of the Directorate of Vigilance, which revealed that the terms of the tendering process were manipulated to favour one Euroteck Environment Pvt. Ltd., thereby restricting competition and providing undue advantage to a selected private entity.

“The investigation further revealed non-conduct of the proposed pilot study, inclusion of restrictive conditions relating to the technology/media to be used, exclusion of essential parameters of treated effluent and changes in technical specifications which allegedly resulted in significant financial implications for the government exchequer,” Delhi ACB chief Vikramjit Singh said in a statement Tuesday.

The investigation also revealed that Udit Prakash Rai, the then CEO of DJB, also received a bribe amounting to Rs. 1.52 crore in his and his relatives’ bank accounts from Euroteck through intermediary firms such as AN Enterprises, Srijanhar, and M/S Euroteck, the technology provider.

Promoters of all the three firms, Raj Kumar Kurra of Euroteck, Pankaj Verma of Srijanhar and Nagendra Yadav respectively, were arrested Tuesday. Additonally, the ACB also arrested one Ankit Srivastava, a former consultant with DJB, as part of the probe. Sources in the agency identified Srivastava as adviser to Jain during his tenure as Water Minister in the Delhi government.

AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal posted on X: “Satendra Jain ji has once again been arrested at the behest of the BJP just a short while ago. Everyone still remembers the ordeal they put him through by throwing him in jail. The previous case was fabricated too, and this case will also be proven to be fake.”

सत्येन्द्र जैन जी को एक बार फिर बीजेपी ने गिरफ्तार करवा दिया है। अभी कुछ वक्त पहले इन लोगों ने जेल में डालकर उनकी जो दुर्दशा की थी, वह सबको याद है। पिछला केस भी फर्जी था और यह केस भी फर्जी साबित होगा। 

आखिर कब तक बीजेपी की ये तानाशाही चलती रहेगी? जिसे मन करता है, झूठे आरोप लगाकर… https://t.co/VpxyPLkdLW

— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) August 18, 2026

The same set of accused were already charged by the Enforcement Directorate in December last year, which alleged that Kurra’s EEPL paid a bribe amounting to Rs 6.73 crore through banking channels and cash.

“The said illegal commission/bribe was paid through banking transaction by issuing bogus invoices/advances to obfuscate the payments and also through cash by hawala channels. These acts resulted in undue profits of Rs 9.96 crore accruing to M/s EEPL, which is also proceeds of crime under PMLA,” the ED had said in a statement in December last year.

(Edited by Viny Mishra)

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