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AAP Leader Satyendar Jain Gets Bail After 2 Years

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After over two years, former Delhi minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Satyendar Jain was granted bail by a local court in a money laundering case. Mr Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

“Considering the delay in trial and long incarceration of 18 months, and the fact that the trial will take a long time to start, let alone conclude, the accused is favourably suited for the relief,” special judge Vishal Gogne said while granting bail, reported news agency PTI.

The Supreme Court had granted him interim bail in May last year on medical grounds. He returned to Delhi’s Tihar jail after the top Court denied his request for regular bail in March 2024.

The ED case against Mr Jain is based on a first information report (FIR) filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in 2017 over alleged money laundering using companies linked to him.

AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal took to X and said: “Satyendra Jain also got bail after spending more than two years in jail. What was his fault? Several raids were conducted at his place. Not even a single penny was recovered. His only fault was that he built mohalla clinics and made all treatment free for all the people of Delhi. Modi Ji put him in jail for closing down Mohalla clinics and stopping free treatment for the poor. But God is with us. Today he too has been released. Welcome back Satyendra!”

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As Prez Rajapaksa Flees, State Of Emergency Declared In Sri Lanka

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As the country battles unprecedented economic and civil turmoil, the Sri Lankan Prime Minister’s office today said that an indefinite nationwide state of emergency has been imposed in the island nation. The move came just hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled the country. Reports said that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will takeover as caretaker President since Rajapaksa has fled.

Dinouk Colombage, spokesman for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, told news agency AFP: “Since the president is out of the country, an emergency has been declared to deal with the situation in the country.”

To quell the protests that intensified as Rajapaksa flew the country, the country’s police said they were also imposing an indefinite curfew across the Western Province, which includes the capital Colombo.

After taking over President’s residence, thousands of protestors tried to enter Prime Minister’s office, leading to police fire tear gas to hold them back from overrunning the compound.

Talking to AFP, a senior police officer said: “There are ongoing protests outside the prime minister’s office in Colombo and we need the curfew to contain the situation.”

They were under orders to crack down against demonstrators disrupting the functioning of the state, he told AFP.

Earlier, tens of thousands of protestors stormed President Rajapaksa’s official residence, forcing him to first flee army base, and then to Maldives.

According to Sri Lankan officials, Rajapaksa had promised to resign on Wednesday.

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