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”.