Disproportionate Assets Case| Punjab-Haryana HC Seeks AG’s Reply On Bikram Singh Majithia’s Plea Against Arrest
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Within the disproportionate belongings case, the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket has requested the Advocate Basic to reply to Bikram Singh Majithia’s petition difficult his arrest and remand, however no interim reduction was granted but.
The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket requested the Punjab Advocate Basic to reply to Bikram Singh Majithia’s plea towards his arrest and remand in a disproportionate belongings case.
Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya postponed the listening to to July 8, with out offering any interim reduction to the Shiromani Akali Dal chief.
Majithia’s lawyer, Arshdeep Singh Kler, indicated that the courtroom directed Advocate Basic Maninderjit Singh Bedi to accumulate directions relating to the plea.
Kler knowledgeable reporters,
“The state counsel has been requested to take directions on what’s the petition and what’s the petitioner’s grouse. The AG himself has appeared within the courtroom,”
Kler talked about that the courtroom requested an amended remand order to be positioned on document. A brand new remand order from the Mohali courtroom was submitted on July 3, which included a correction altering the date from July 5 to July 6. The excessive courtroom has now requested for this amended remand order to be documented.
Majithia, who was arrested within the DA case, was initially positioned below a seven-day vigilance remand by the Mohali courtroom on June 26. This remand was prolonged for an extra 4 days on July 2 after the preliminary interval expired. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested him on June 25, alleging his involvement in laundering Rs 540 crore of “drug cash.”
Majithia On July 1, filed a petition with the Excessive Court docket contesting the DA case, which he characterised as “political witch-hunting and vendetta” attributable to his outspoken criticism of the present authorities. He sought applicable reduction towards what he termed the “unlawful” arrest and subsequent remand granted below the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988.
The petition said,
“The stated FIR is a results of political witch-hunting and vendetta, initiated by the current political dispensation with the only object of maligning and harassing the petitioner who has been a vocal critic and political opponent,”
The plea contended that the FIR towards him was “patently unlawful” and that his arrest violated established authorized procedures.
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It argued that the remand software submitted by the investigating company lacked substantial or pressing grounds for investigation, relying as an alternative on Baseless allegations relating to the petitioner’s supposed affect, international connections, and basic must confront him with paperwork or digital units.
Majithia additionally identified that the Supreme Court docket had beforehand denied custodial interrogation based mostly on related allegations, as outlined in an in depth order issued on March 4.
His present petition raises vital authorized questions relating to the abuse of felony processes, misuse of remand powers, and the precise to a good investigation and liberty.
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Because of this, Majithia is searching for the annulment of the remand order and measures to stop additional “abuse of authorized processes”. The brand new FIR claims that preliminary investigations confirmed that over Rs 540 crore of “drug cash” was laundered by way of varied means, allegedly facilitated by Majithia.
This case is a part of an ongoing investigation by a particular staff of the Punjab Police right into a drug case from 2021, through which Majithia was beforehand charged below the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act based mostly on a 2018 report from the anti-drug Particular Activity Power. He spent greater than 5 months in Patiala Jail and was launched on bail in August 2022 after the excessive courtroom’s intervention.
