SAD says Cong govt sweeping Rs 5,600 crore liquor scam under the carpet
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Monday took a serious note of the manner in which the Congress government was sweeping the Rs 5,600 crore liquor scam under the carpet. It also asserted that the government has failed in taking action against distillery owners and Congressmen who were indulging in liquor smuggling and illegal production and bottling of liquor.
Former minister Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said that the government after going completely silent on the Rs 5,600 crore liquor scam. He also said that now it is trying to cover up two serious cases involving smuggling of liquor from a distillery owned by the family of the Religious Advisor to the chief minister. The other one is illegal production and bottling of liquor by front men of two Congress legislators – Madan Lal Jalalpur and Hardyal Singh Kamboj.
Dr Cheema said that as per his information, the police department was yet to register a case against anyone in the seizure of two truckloads of liquor of Chaddha distillery from its adjoining sugar mill. He said that the police and excise department were passing the buck to each other in order to dilute the case and allow the distillery management to go Scot free.
The SAD leader said that instead of taking action against the Congress leaders it was condemnable that senior journalist Manish Sirhindi had been served a notice by the Punjab Excise department and told to disclose the source of his information against the liquor mafia.
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He said the Congress government had earlier tried to threaten journalist Jai Singh Chhibber in a similar fashion and now other journalists who were writing about the misdeeds of its legislators and leaders were also being browbeaten. “The SAD condemns this attack on the freedom of the press and will stand with journalists to ensure they are not victimized in any fashion”, Dr Cheema added.
-PTC News
