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  • SAD’s Majithia seeks clearance of cane dues from Punjab govt, non-public sugar generators

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    PHAGWARA: Former Punjab minister and senior Akali chief Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday demanded clearance of dues of sugarcane growers via the state govt in addition to non-public sugar generators.

    He additionally demanded an building up within the fee of sugarcane in Punjab at the strains of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.

    Majithia, who was once just lately launched from the Patiala prison after he was once granted bail via the Punjab and Haryana Prime courtroom in a medicine case, stated it was once dropped at his realize that farmers have been protesting right here and critical their cane dues of Rs 72 crore pending against a neighborhood sugar mill right here.

    He stated that farmers will have to get their rights.

    Previous, Majithia was once given a convincing welcome via Akali staff on the Bhullarai underpass of Mehli-Mehtan Phagwara bypass.

    The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief was once on his solution to the Golden Temple in Amritsar the place he’s going to be offering prayers.

    Chatting with newshounds, Majithia took a dig at former leader minister Charanjit Singh Channi, announcing he created “historical past” via dropping each the seats — Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur– he had contested all over the February state meeting polls.

    It’s for the primary time {that a} sitting leader minister misplaced each the seats, he stated.

    Accusing Channi of following vindictive politics and framing him in a cooked-up drug case, Majithia requested the previous leader minister as to what had he were given from this “politics of hatred and vendetta”.

    “Channi Sahib has fled to the USA and now not returned but,” stated Majithia.

    With out naming former MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu, Majithia stated the opposite one that labored in opposition to him day in and day trip was once his neighbour within the Patiala prison.

    “I pray for him additionally as when a political chief is going to prison, his circle of relatives suffers so much,” he stated.

    On his method, Majithia additionally visited the Bhagat Singh memorial at Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr.

    He was once welcomed via the birthday party staff on his solution to Amritsar.

    “Day after today I will be able to pay obeisance on the Golden Temple in Amritsar,” he stated.

    He attacked the AAP govt, accusing it of taking part in fraud with other people and stated its defeat within the Sangrur bypoll inside of 3 months of its coming to energy had “uncovered its actual face”.

    To a query on his birthday party MLA from Dakha, Majithia stated legislator Manpreet Singh Ayali was once like his brother.

    “We’re a circle of relatives and can stay a circle of relatives,” he stated.

    Ayali had sought the implementation of the suggestions of the Iqbal Singh Jhundan panel shaped to analyse the explanations for the birthday party’s humiliating defeat within the Punjab meeting polls.

    The SAD gained simply 3 seats within the 117-member Punjab Meeting.

    PHAGWARA: Former Punjab minister and senior Akali chief Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday demanded clearance of dues of sugarcane growers via the state govt in addition to non-public sugar generators.

    He additionally demanded an building up within the fee of sugarcane in Punjab at the strains of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.

    Majithia, who was once just lately launched from the Patiala prison after he was once granted bail via the Punjab and Haryana Prime courtroom in a medicine case, stated it was once dropped at his realize that farmers have been protesting right here and critical their cane dues of Rs 72 crore pending against a neighborhood sugar mill right here.

    He stated that farmers will have to get their rights.

    Previous, Majithia was once given a convincing welcome via Akali staff on the Bhullarai underpass of Mehli-Mehtan Phagwara bypass.

    The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief was once on his solution to the Golden Temple in Amritsar the place he’s going to be offering prayers.

    Chatting with newshounds, Majithia took a dig at former leader minister Charanjit Singh Channi, announcing he created “historical past” via dropping each the seats — Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur– he had contested all over the February state meeting polls.

    It’s for the primary time {that a} sitting leader minister misplaced each the seats, he stated.

    Accusing Channi of following vindictive politics and framing him in a cooked-up drug case, Majithia requested the previous leader minister as to what had he were given from this “politics of hatred and vendetta”.

    “Channi Sahib has fled to the USA and now not returned but,” stated Majithia.

    With out naming former MLA Navjot Singh Sidhu, Majithia stated the opposite one that labored in opposition to him day in and day trip was once his neighbour within the Patiala prison.

    “I pray for him additionally as when a political chief is going to prison, his circle of relatives suffers so much,” he stated.

    On his method, Majithia additionally visited the Bhagat Singh memorial at Khatkar Kalan in Nawanshahr.

    He was once welcomed via the birthday party staff on his solution to Amritsar.

    “Day after today I will be able to pay obeisance on the Golden Temple in Amritsar,” he stated.

    He attacked the AAP govt, accusing it of taking part in fraud with other people and stated its defeat within the Sangrur bypoll inside of 3 months of its coming to energy had “uncovered its actual face”.

    To a query on his birthday party MLA from Dakha, Majithia stated legislator Manpreet Singh Ayali was once like his brother.

    “We’re a circle of relatives and can stay a circle of relatives,” he stated.

    Ayali had sought the implementation of the suggestions of the Iqbal Singh Jhundan panel shaped to analyse the explanations for the birthday party’s humiliating defeat within the Punjab meeting polls.

    The SAD gained simply 3 seats within the 117-member Punjab Meeting.

  • Medication case: Punjab and Haryana Prime Court docket grants bail to SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia

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    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana Prime Court docket on Wednesday granted common bail to senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief and previous cupboard minister Bikram Singh Majithia in a medication case. He’s going to be out of Patiala Central Prison after five-and-a-half months.

    A department bench of justices MS Ramachandra Rao and Sureshwar Thakur gave the verdict at the bail plea of Majithia. The department bench had previous reserved its order on July 29. Majithia had approached the prime courtroom on Would possibly 23, in quest of bail within the case registered towards him underneath quite a lot of sections of the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Ingredients Act in December 2021.

    The bench said that there’s no subject material put on document appearing ownership, transportation, storing via or restoration of any contraband from the petitioner. All recoveries within the concluded trials have been effected from explicit people and the petitioner was once no longer proven to have any position in that regard.

    The state continues to be seeking to get main points from quite a lot of monetary establishments in India and in another country and didn’t seem to have made a lot headway, regardless that the case was once registered virtually 8 months again, the courtroom mentioned. The bench added, “We’re of the opinion that persevered detention of the petitioner, which began on February 24, isn’t warranted and he’s entitled to be launched on bail.’’

    Majithia, who’s the brother-in-law of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and brother of former Union minister and present MP from Bathinda, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, had contended that the then Congress executive within the state had misused its energy for wreaking vengeance towards its political combatants and the petitioner was once one of these goal.

    CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana Prime Court docket on Wednesday granted common bail to senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief and previous cupboard minister Bikram Singh Majithia in a medication case. He’s going to be out of Patiala Central Prison after five-and-a-half months.

    A department bench of justices MS Ramachandra Rao and Sureshwar Thakur gave the verdict at the bail plea of Majithia. The department bench had previous reserved its order on July 29. Majithia had approached the prime courtroom on Would possibly 23, in quest of bail within the case registered towards him underneath quite a lot of sections of the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Ingredients Act in December 2021.

    The bench said that there’s no subject material put on document appearing ownership, transportation, storing via or restoration of any contraband from the petitioner. All recoveries within the concluded trials have been effected from explicit people and the petitioner was once no longer proven to have any position in that regard.

    The state continues to be seeking to get main points from quite a lot of monetary establishments in India and in another country and didn’t seem to have made a lot headway, regardless that the case was once registered virtually 8 months again, the courtroom mentioned. The bench added, “We’re of the opinion that persevered detention of the petitioner, which began on February 24, isn’t warranted and he’s entitled to be launched on bail.’’

    Majithia, who’s the brother-in-law of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and brother of former Union minister and present MP from Bathinda, Harsimrat Kaur Badal, had contended that the then Congress executive within the state had misused its energy for wreaking vengeance towards its political combatants and the petitioner was once one of these goal.

  • Majithia proclaims he’s answering the decision of responsibility through contesting from Amritsar East on my own

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    CHANDIGARH: The Amritsar (East) meeting phase is ready to look some of the high-profile contests, as Bikram Singh Majithia of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) authorized the problem posed through Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu and can contest handiest from Amritsar East and his spouse Ganieve Kaur Majithia will now contest from Majitha.

    Former minister Majithia stated he had determined to reply to the decision of responsibility and contest the approaching meeting elections from Amritsar (East) constituency and surrender the accountability of the Majitha seat to his spouse Ganieve Kaur Majithia.

    He stated he has foreseen a sense of bewilderment within the minds of the folks of Amritsar East who would rightfully really feel that he may forsake the seat if elected from two constituencies. “I’ve addressed this worry and determined to contest the following elections from Amritsar East on my own,’’ he stated.

    Majtihia stated the election was once additionally about breaking the confidence of Madhya Pradesh Congress President Navjot Sidhu. 

    “I’ve determined to show him to recognize the folks of the constituency. You’ll see that he’ll begin to love other folks through the tip of the marketing campaign. He’s going to discover ways to recognize elders. He must forestall making statements within the air and must descend all the way down to the extent of the average guy,’’ he stated.

    Saying that the folks of Amritsar East felt humiliated through Sidhu’s behaviour, the SAD chief stated, “Sidhu hasn’t ever participated in any social serve as of the constituency. He has now not long past to grieve at any individual’s passing away. He is not just unmindful of his constituents but additionally deceives them through promising tasks like sports activities stadiums and over bridges at the eve of elections and forgets about them as soon as the elections are over.” 

    “Now when he is going to fulfill the folks he’ll see for himself the state of roads and streets in his constituency. Other people will ask him why he failed to make sure even elementary amenities to them together with potable consuming water and sewerage amenities. Now the time has come for him to be answerable to his constituents,’’ he stated.

    Saying that he had come to win hearts in Amritsar East, Majithia stated, “I’ve gained the hearts of the folks of Majitha with onerous paintings and determination. I’ve been one with them and they’ve returned my affection manifold through electing me to administrative center manifold occasions. It’s with a heavy center that I’m transferring from Majitha to Amritsar East. It has now not been a very easy resolution. However I felt that infrequently in politics, cases pressure you to take such tricky selections. That is one such example. I’m thankful to the folks of Majitha in addition to my core crew for giving me permission and blessings to contest the approaching elections from Amritsar East.’’

    Majithia stated he was once assured his spouse Ganieve Majithia would serve the folks of the Majitha with utmost determination. “It isn’t a very easy resolution for her additionally however I’m assured she’s going to do her perfect to proceed the circle of relatives’s custom of provider to the folks.’’

    The SAD had fielded Majithia from two seats – Amritsar East and neighbouring Majitha.

  • Punjab polls: Majithia to battle best from Amritsar East

    By means of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia on Tuesday stated he’ll now not battle from Majitha meeting seat and can best contest from Amritsar East from the place he has entered the fray in opposition to Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu.

    The previous minister additional stated his spouse Ganieve Kaur will contest from Majithia meeting phase in his position.

    Ganieve had filed her nomination papers from Majitha seat on Monday.

    A couple of days again, the Shiromani Akali Dal leader had fielded Majithia from Amritsar East in opposition to Punjab Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu.

    He had previous been nominated from Majitha meeting phase and had additionally filed nomination papers from this seat.

    Addressing the media in Amritsar, Majithia stated after the SAD named him as candidate from Amritsar East meeting seat, folks of this constituency requested him which seat he would constitute in case he received from each the seat.

    He stated the query precipitated him to take a choice on preventing best from one seat and made up our minds in opposition to contesting from Majitha meeting phase “After taking permission and blessing of electorate of the Majitha meeting phase, I announce that my spouse Ganieve Kaur will battle from Majitha seat.

    I will be able to contest from Amritsar East seat,” stated Majithia.

    Majithia has been representing the Majitha meeting phase since 2007.

    Majithia, a three-time MLA, centered Navjot Sidhu for now not sporting out any building paintings within the Amritsar East constituency Sidhu final week had dared Majithia to go away the Majitha meeting seat and battle best from his constituency.

    The scrutiny of nominations will probably be completed on February 2 and the final date of withdrawal of candidature is February 4.

    Balloting for Punjab’s 117 Meeting seats will probably be hung on February 20 and the counting will happen on March 10.

  • Large battle in Punjab: Bikram Singh Majithia of SAD vs Navjot Singh Sidhu of Congress in Amritsar (East)

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    CHANDIGARH: A large battle is at the playing cards in Punjab for the Amritsar (East) meeting seat as Bikram Singh Majithia of Shiromani Akali Dal is to contest towards Punjab Congress President Navjot Singh Sidhu within the constituency. Former leader minister and SAD patron Parkash Singh Badal will contest the Punjab meeting election from his conventional constituency Lambi.

    In a unexpected transfer, the Shiromani Akali Dal President Sukhbir Singh Badal lately introduced  the candidature of Bikram Singh Majithia, who’s his brother-in-law, from Amritsar (East) along with his personal constituency, Majithia.

    Badal mentioned,”Navjot Sidhu’s vanity shall be his undoing. He has been harping on his improve a number of the lots. Now his improve shall be examined by means of ‘Majha Da Sher’ taking him on in his house constituency. He must get able to battle the courageous SAD employees. We will be able to spoil his vanity by means of making sure he loses his safety deposit.”

    Badal mentioned, “Now we have known as out Navjot Sidhu’s bluster. We all know he has no longer performed anything else in his constituency for the ultimate 5 years.”

    He didn’t do anything else in his constituency whilst native our bodies’ minister. The constituency of Amritsar (East) has ingesting water or even sewerage problems that have no longer been addressed by means of Sidhu. “Now the folks of his constituency will grasp him responsible,” he mentioned.

    In December ultimate 12 months, the Punjab Police registered a case below NDPS Act towards Majithia and he has been lately given bail for 3 days by means of the Punjab and Haryana Prime Courtroom.

    Badal mentioned {that a} false case towards Majithia used to be registered as he all the time raised the problems of the folks. “Majithia is understood to battle for the folks. This used to be to not the liking of the Congress executive. They have got registered a false case towards a Gursikh who is understood to do ‘Nitnem’ for 2 and a part hours on a daily basis. Our employees additionally discovered that one of the best ways to hunt justice for Majithia used to be within the folks’s court docket and it’s they who careworn the birthday celebration to make him the birthday celebration candidate from Amritsar (East),” he mentioned.

    Badal additionally introduced that his father and previous leader minister Parkash Singh Badal would contest the meeting election from Lambi seat. 

    “All of the birthday celebration pleaded with Parkash Singh Badal to not retire from politics and he has acceded to our request to contest the imminent elections from Lambi. Badal has all the time been in the leading edge to provide his services and products for the welfare of Punjab and Punjabis and he’s doing so once more,” he mentioned.

    Badal made those bulletins in Amritsar as he re-inducted Chajjalwadi circle of relatives into the SAD together with a lot of Congress sarpanches and block samiti participants. He additionally introduced that Satinder Singh Chajjwalwadi, son of three-time legislator Ranjit Singh Chajjalwadi, will be the birthday celebration nominee from Baba Bakala.

    Within the ultimate meeting polls Sidhu had gained Amritsar (East) by means of a margin of 42,661 votes as he had then were given 60,477 votes, adopted by means of then SAD-BKP candidate Rakesh Kumar Honey who polled in 17,668 and Sarabjot Singh Dhanjal from AAP who were given 14,715 votes.
     
    Majithia appealed to the Election Fee of India to carry the Congress executive in charge of violating prime court docket directives and undertaking raids on his place of dwelling and harassing his members of the family even ahead of the court docket handed its ultimate verdict on his anticipatory bail plea. He additionally demanded a Nationwide Investigation Company (NIA) inquiry into the audio-tape reveal of DGP S Chatttopadhay announcing the protection breach all the way through Top Minister Narendra Modi’s seek advice from to Punjab may have even led to an assassination bid at the PM.
     

  • Punjab and Haryana HC dismisses bail plea of SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia in medicine case

    Through PTI

    CHANDIGARH The Punjab and Haryana Top Court docket on Monday brushed aside the anticipatory bail plea of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been booked underneath the NDPS Act. Majithia’s recommend Asrhdeep Singh Cheema mentioned the court docket of Justice Lisa Gill brushed aside the anticipatory bail plea.

    Cheema mentioned that the prime court docket was once asked to increase the intervening time coverage for seven days for shifting the Superb Court docket. On the other hand, the recommend mentioned the detailed order is awaited. The court docket orders got here following the listening to of arguments of all sides.

    The court docket on January 10 had granted intervening time coverage to Majithia from the arrest within the subject whilst directing him to enroll in the investigation on January 12. It had additionally imposed some prerequisites, together with now not leaving the rustic, at the Akali chief.

    The court docket had prolonged the intervening time coverage on January 18. Majithia (46), who was once booked underneath the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Elements (NDPS) Act on December 20 closing yr, had moved the prime court docket in the hunt for anticipatory bail.

    His anticipatory bail plea was once rejected by means of a Mohali court docket on December 24. Majithia is the brother-in-law of Sukhbir Badal and the brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal. The previous Punjab minister was once booked underneath the NDPS Act at the foundation of a 2018 file of a probe into a medicine racket working within the state.

    The file was once filed by means of the anti-drug particular job pressure (STF) leader Harpreet Singh Sidhu within the Punjab and Haryana Top Court docket in 2018. The 49-page FIR within the subject was once registered by means of the state Crime Department at its Mohali police station.

    Majithia was once booked underneath sections 25 (punishment for permitting one’s premises for its use for the fee of an offence), 27A (for financing sale, acquire, manufacturing, manufacture, ownership, transportation, use or intake, import and export or any act concerning narcotics) and 29 (abetting or plotting an offence) of the NDPS Act.

    In his bail plea, the SAD chief had submitted that the Congress govt in Punjab had “left no stone unturned to misuse its powers and place for wreaking vengeance upon its political fighters”.

  • ‘CM looted Rs 1,111 crore’: SAD calls for CBI probe into unlawful sand mining in Channi’s constituency 

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    CHANDIGARH: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Saturday claimed that it has uncovered a multi-crore sand mining racket being run through CM Charanjit Singh Channi via a sting operation, and demanded a CBI probe into the case in Channi’s house constituency of Chamkaur Sahib.

    Senior SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia produced the purported audio recordings announcing that an unbiased probe may disclose the level to which the manager minister and his circle of relatives had looted the State exchequer via unlawful sand mining mafia. “The entire loot through Channi in his 111-day tenure can be greater than Rs 1,111 crore”.

    Majithia launched the audio recordings of the manager minister’s closest aide and Salapur village Sarpanch Iqbal Singh and his son Binder by which they detailed all of the unlawful sand mining operation being run with the manager minister’s blessings. 

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    The audio recordings, completed through one Darshan Singh who had befriended individuals of the sand mafia to reveal them, even has Iqbal announcing the manager minister had advised him to not worry anything else or even do mining on woodland land. It additionally gave an account of the way a woodland guard was once browbeaten into silence. The recordings display that the mafia was once additionally the use of boats and forklifts to mine sand from river beds.

    As according to the audio recordings, Iqbal Singh stated the involved DFO had advised him to offer his quantity to all of the drivers and that he would for my part be sure they do not need any drawback in mining sand on woodland land. It additionally disclosed that out of the whole sand being quarried, up to Rs 1.50 according to cubic ft was once going to Channi. The recordings published that one Rakesh Chaudhary of Jammu was once the chief of the sand mafia.

    Majithia stated, “It is usually sure that the proceeds of this criminality have been going to the Congress birthday party and this was once why the Congress top command, in addition to leaders like Harish Chaudhary, have been seeking to save Channi through announcing that he was once being victimised. 

    The SAD chief additional stated the actual fact that the Congress got here out in protection of Bhupinder Honey, the CM’s nephew who was once working the unlawful mining racket, proved that Honey and Channi have been the use of cash to buy patronage from the AICC. “This perspective must even be probed completely,” Majithia added.

  • Deal between Charanjit Singh Channi, Badal circle of relatives to save lots of Majithia: Punjab AAP leader Bhagwant Mann

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    CHANDIGARH: Punjab AAP leader Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday alleged that there used to be a “deal” between Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and the Badal circle of relatives for saving Akali Dal chief Bikram Singh Majithia who has been booked in a medication case.

    The Punjab and Haryana Top Courtroom on Monday had granted him anticipatory bail within the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Elements Act filed in opposition to him.

    He used to be directed to sign up for the police investigation on Wednesday.

    The previous Punjab minister were requested to not go away the rustic until the following date of listening to.

    Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration chief Mann alleged {that a} “vulnerable” case used to be registered in opposition to Majithia.

    “There used to be a deal between Channi and the Badal circle of relatives even sooner than the FIR that Congress executive would document a vulnerable case in opposition to Majithia and no concrete motion could be taken. That is why the Congress executive didn’t arrest Majithia even after FIR or the rejection of his anticipatory bail from the Mohali courtroom,” Mann alleged in a observation right here.

    Majithia used to be booked on December 20 closing yr beneath the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Elements (NDPS) Act at the foundation of a 2018 document of a probe into the drug racket within the state.

    The document used to be filed via anti-drugs particular job power (STF) leader Harpreet Singh Sidhu within the Punjab and Haryana Top Courtroom in 2018.

    Mann stated that criminal motion in opposition to Majithia within the drug case met the similar destiny as Shipping minister Amarinder Singh Raja Warring’s motion in opposition to buses of the Badal circle of relatives, “for the reason that Congress leaders didn’t take criminal movements to punish the mafia”.

    “Consequently as of late Badal’s buses are on roads and Majithia will roam loose as it’s.”

    Mann stated if the AAP is voted to energy, it is going to reopen those recordsdata and case to take exemplary motion in opposition to each and every mafia and corrupt leaders.

    Mann stated the folks of Punjab would elect the Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration executive.

    “The Aam Aadmi Birthday celebration already has a roadmap able for the improvement of Punjab. A roadmap for the improvement of the farming sector, industries, training, clinical remedy and getting rid of unemployment and poverty is able. The AAP is an earthly birthday party and we’re going to identify brotherhood and sure politics within the state,” he said.

    In the meantime, AAP chief Raghav Chadha stated his birthday party didn’t put up any pamphlet which said that the folks of Punjab must take cash from any political birthday party or chief and vote for the AAP.

    Chadha stated the AAP is a decent birthday party and the folks of Punjab know that.

    “Our birthday party does no longer give out cash, items or liquor to entice electorate.”

    Such pamphlets had surfaced in Patiala district two days in the past.

    In the meantime, Congress chief from Ludhiana Gurpreet Singh Gogi joined the AAP right here.

  • NDPS case: SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia given anticipatory bail by means of HC, requested to enroll in investigation

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    CHANDIGARH: SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia, going through arrest in an NDPS case, involving sale, acquire and production of gear amongst different offences, used to be on Monday granted anticipatory bail by means of the Punjab and Haryana Prime Court docket.

    A bench of Justice Lisa Gill, alternatively, requested the SAD chief to enroll in investigation with the police.

    Whilst granting Majithia the pre-arrest bail, Justice Gill additionally requested him to to not depart the rustic until the following date of listening to and proportion his reside location with the investigating company via WhatsApp.

    The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief’s suggest, Damanbir Singh Sobti, mentioned Majithia will sign up for the investigation at 11 am on Wednesday.

    “Within the tournament of his arrest, petitioner might be launched on intervening time bail until the following date of listening to to the pride of Investigating / arresting Officer,” Justice Gill mentioned in within the order.

    “…maintaining in view the information and instances, it is thought of as expedient at this level, that the petitioner on the first example, must sign up for investigation,” he added.

    Accordingly, it’s directed that the petitioner must seem ahead of the Investigating Officer on January 12 at 11 am.

    “He shall absolutely cooperate within the investigation of this situation,” he added.

    The 46-year-old SAD chief used to be booked below the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Ingredients (NDPS) Act final month.

    He had moved the prime courtroom for anticipatory bail after a Mohali courtroom pushed aside his pre-arrest bail plea on December 24.

    Checklist the subject for additional listening to on January 18, the pass judgement on mentioned, “Remember that, the prevailing intervening time order is with out prejudice to the precise of the prosecution to press for custodial interrogation, if required.”

    Senior suggest P Chidambaram along side state suggest common represented the Punjab govt whilst senior suggest Mukul Rohtagi and RS Cheema represented the petitioner.

    Listening to happened via video conferencing on account of Covid-19.

    Justice Lisa Gill directed that the petitioner shall additional seem ahead of the investigating company as and when required and shall supply his cell quantity to it which might be to be had and switched on all the time.

    “Petitioner shall indirectly or not directly attempt to touch any of the witnesses or somebody attached with the case in any method,” mentioned the order whilst directing Majithia to abide by means of those prerequisites.

    Previous, Majithia’s suggest Sobti mentioned, “After seeing the entire data, the prime courtroom gave instructions that it is a case the place he can sign up for the investigation and when he joins the investigation, he might not be arrested.”

    Replying to a query, Sobti mentioned sure “further information” have been dropped at the courtroom’s realize, claiming that former Punjab DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya had promoted Assistant Inspector Basic Balraj Singh’s son Princepreet Singh from the rank of sub-inspector to that of inspector by means of the usage of particular powers.

    Balraj Singh is the pinnacle of the particular investigation group this is probing the case towards Majithia.

    The SAD has been alleging that the FIR towards Majithia is a results of “political vendetta”.

    Reacting to the comfort granted to Majithia, SAD leader Sukhbir Singh Badal, in a tweet, mentioned “justice prevails”, whilst his spouse Harsimrat Kaur Badal mentioned “fact at all times triumphs, regardless of how large the lie is”.

    Majithia is the brother-in-law of Sukhbir Singh Badal and the brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.

    Reacting to the advance, Punjab Leader Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, in Moga, mentioned intervening time bail does now not imply the case is over and Majithia can have to enroll in the probe on Wednesday.

    The previous Punjab minister used to be booked below the NDPS Act at the foundation of a 2018 document of a probe into the drug racket within the state.

    The document used to be filed by means of anti-drug particular activity pressure (STF) leader Harpreet Singh Sidhu within the Punjab and Haryana Prime Court docket in 2018.

    The 49-page FIR within the subject used to be registered by means of the state Crime Department at its Mohali police station.

    Majithia used to be booked below sections 25 (punishment for permitting one’s premises for its use for the fee of an offence), 27A (for financing sale, acquire, manufacturing, manufacture, ownership, transportation, use or intake, import and export or any act relating narcotics) and 29 (abetting or plotting an offence) of the NDPS Act.

    In his bail plea, the SAD chief had submitted that the Congress govt in Punjab had “left no stone unturned to misuse its powers and place for wreaking vengeance upon its political warring parties”.

    The Channi govt had come below assault from the Aam Aadmi Birthday party or even from state Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu for now not with the ability to arrest Majithia, even though the police had carried out raids to nab him.

    Pictures of Majithia, appearing him on the Golden Temple, had additionally long past viral on social media.

    Punjab House Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, alternatively, had dubbed the pictures as “faux”.