Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia granted bail in drugs case
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court granted bail to Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Wednesday in a drugs case.
Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia was granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday in a drugs case.
According to one of Majithia’s counsels, Arshdeep Singh Kler, the matter was reserved for final order by a bench of Justice MS Ramachandra Rao and Justice Sureshwar Thakur on July 29.
He had approached the High Court seeking bail on May 23 in a case registered under various sections of the NDPS Act in December 2021 by the Punjab Police. He surrendered after the February 20 assembly polls and is currently lodged in the Patiala jail.
Majithia, 46, was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on December 20 last year basis of a 2018 report of a probe into a drug racket in Punjab. The Punjab Police's Crime Branch had filed a 49-page FIR related to the case at a Mohali police station last year.
Majithia is the brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal and brother-in-law of Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal.
