Drugs case: SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia files anticipatory bail in Mohali court
Mohali: Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been booked in the drugs case, on Thursday filed an anticipatory bail in the Mohali Court.
On late December 20 evening, the Punjab Police had booked Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. On Thursday, he filed the anticipatory bail , which is likely to be heard today (December 23) by the Mohali court.
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In the anticipatory bail, the Akali leader alleged that the Congress-led Punjab Government had left no stone unturned to misuse its powers and position for wreaking vengeance upon its political opponents.
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The Punjab Police have booked SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia under various sections of the NDPS Act.[/caption]
"To target the applicant/petitioner is one of the major election planks of the current government. To fulfill its election stunt, the Congress government of Punjab has been day and night browbeating officers to register false cases against the senior leadership of the Shiromani Akali Dal, including the applicant/petitioner. In the run-up to the Assembly elections, witch-hunting of the political opponents has gone to its peak. The government has changed three DGPs over the span of three months... Officers have also been induced with promotions and plum position," say the bail application.
Shiromani Akali Dal patron Parkash Singh Badal had termed the registration of the case as the worst example of political vendetta. “We have been airing our fears about such a vendetta. We will fight the injustice,” he said while talking to reporters in Muktsar.
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] He was among the most powerful ministers in the Parkash Singh Badal government that ruled the state till 2017.[/caption]
Bikram Singh Majithia is brother of former Union minister and Bathinda MP Harsimrat Kaur Badal, He is a prominent Akali leader. He was among the most powerful ministers in the Parkash Singh Badal government that ruled the state till 2017. The police action against him has raised the political temperature in the poll-bound state.
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The Punjab Police has got a lookout circular issued against the SAD leader.[/caption]
Earlier, after lodging the FIR against Bikram Singh Majithia in the drugs case, the Punjab Police got a lookout circular (LOC) issued against him.
-PTC News
