Mohali court rejects anticipatory bail plea of Akali leader Majithia
A Mohali court on Friday rejected the anticipatory bail plea of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been booked under the NDPS Act.
The former Punjab minister had on Thursday moved the court for anticipatory bail.
The bail plea was filed by Majithia’s lawyer DS Sobti, who told reporters outside the court that the Additional District and Sessions Judge had “dismissed the petition”. “However, we are yet to receive the order,” he said.
Majithia, 46, was on Monday booked under relevant sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on the basis of a 2018 status report of an investigation into an ongoing drug racket in Punjab.
The report was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in 2018 by Harpreet Singh Sidhu, chief of the Anti-Drug Special Task Force (STF).
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