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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, 30 May, arrested Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain in connection with alleged hawala transactions linked to a Kolkata-based company, news agency ANI reported.
Reacting to the arrest, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Manish Sisodia took to Twitter to say that the ED arrested Jain because he was the election incharge of the party for Himachal Pradesh.
Terming the case against Jain "fake," Sisodia said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was worried it would lose the election in Himachal Pradesh.
In January this year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal claimed that Jain could be arrested by the ED ahead of the Punjab elections.
Reacting to the arrest, AAP leader Sanjay Singh stated that Jain was arrested in "an 8-year-old case in connection with which he appeared before ED seven times," ANI reported.
Singh was further quoted as saying, "This case highlights misuse of probe agencies...Soon he will be out as it's a baseless case...BJP is losing Himachal Pradesh polls."
(With inputs from ANI.)
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