Mohali court rejects Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia's bail plea in drugs case

A sessions court in Mohali has rejected the bail plea of Shiromani Akali Dal MLA Bikram Singh Majithia in a 2018 drugs case.

A sessions court in Mohali on Friday rejected the regular bail plea of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Bikram Singh Majithia in a drugs case. Majithia was given relief from arrest by the Supreme Court till February 23 following which he applied for bail in the Mohali court.

Bikram Majithia, who was remanded to judicial custody for two weeks, will approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court to get regular bail.

Bikram Majithia, who is the brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, contested the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls from Amritsar East against Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu.

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Majithia was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on the basis of a 2018 probe report into a drug racket in the state. The Punjab Police's Crime Branch had filed a 49-page FIR related to the case at a Mohali police station last year.

The SAD has called the case against Majithia as “political vendetta”, saying that three DGPs and three Directors of Bureau of Investigation were changed. The party also alleged that police officers were allegedly coerced to falsely implicate Majithia.

On Thursday, Majithia was questioned for over an hour by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the drugs case.