New Delhi: A Delhi court Tuesday rejected the interim bail application of Al Falah Group chairman Jawad Ahmad Siddiqui in a money laundering case, holding he had failed to establish grounds for relief despite citing his wife’s medical condition and humanitarian considerations.Finding the application “devoid of merit”, additional sessions judge Sheetal Pradhan Choudhary said, “It is expected from adult children to take care of their parents in such emergent situation and it cannot be said the children cannot be a caregiver to their mother.”Siddiqui had sought six weeks’ interim bail to care for his wife, who has stage IV ovarian cancer and was scheduled to undergo chemoport insertion surgery on June 3. He claimed the request was made on humanitarian grounds, as there was no one available as her “primary caregiver”.After examining medical records, the court found no indication of any immediate medical emergency. It noted the records didn’t establish her condition as “extremely critical or life-threatening”, but as “stable”.Siddiqui’s counsel relied on a June 8 document from Yashoda Medicity Hospital, but the court noted it didn’t show she was bedridden. It referred to the defence’s submissions that Siddiqui’s wife had travelled alone to the UAE in Feb without a caregiver and met her children, who have been unable to return to India. It noted Siddiqui had been offered one-day custody parole to attend to his wife in hospital, which he had “flatly refused”.Siddiqui was arrested by Delhi Police crime branch in Feb over alleged irregularities at Al-Falah University and taken into custody by ED in March.