Chandigarh: Supreme Court has restrained the cops from arresting Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Majithia in the Punjab drug case, till February 23. This is a small and temporary relief for the party.
However he should surrender before the court on February 23, after the elections in Punjab. He was booked under the Narcotic Drug and Psychotropic Substance (NDPS) Act.
The Supreme Court order will allow Majithia to campaign for his party freely. Bikram Majithia has filed his nomination from both Amritsar East and Majitha constituencies.
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana asked the Punjab government’s lawyer to “advise the state that the impression should not go out that politically motivated cases are being filed”.
A petition filed by Simarjeet Singh Bains, a two-time MLA from Atam Nagar (Ludhiana) and president of Lok Insaaf Party (LIP), will be heard on Tuesday.
Majithia has pitched that there is a political motive behind the FIR against him and must be seen contexting with the upcoming Punjab Assembly polls. The general secretary of the Shiromani Akali Dal, Bikram Singh Majithia is the brother-in-law of party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.
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