Punjab Government Tells High Court
The Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday refused to grant any reduction to former cupboard minister Bikramjit Singh Majithia a senior Shiromani Akali Dal chief in his alleged “unlawful arrest” and subsequent remand in his ongoing disproportionate belongings and corruption case.
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested Majithia on June 25 within the Disproportionate Belongings case allegedly involving laundering of Rs 540 crore of “drug cash”. A Mohali courtroom on July 2 prolonged Majithia’s remand by 4 days.
Through the listening to, the Advocate Basic (AG) of Punjab Maninderjit Singh Bedi raised an objection that correct utility has not been filed by the petitioner and it was solely an utility for putting on document of the next remand order.
The AG identified that the petitioner had alleged within the utility that it was moved “in pursuance of the verbal instructions of this Hon’ble Courtroom.”
Refuting the declare, the AG highlighted that no such course, oral or written, was ever issued by the Courtroom in its final order on July 3.
Quite the opposite, the mentioned order merely recorded that the matter was adjourned on the request of the discovered counsel for the petitioner. The precise course of the Courtroom was restricted to allowing the petitioner to maneuver an utility for putting on document the remand order, as soon as the identical was uploaded on the official web site. Nevertheless, “as an alternative of complying with this clear directive, the petitioner selected to file a wholly totally different utility searching for to substitute the unique petition with an amended one, with out acquiring go away of the Courtroom or following the prescribed process below felony regulation,” the AG added.
Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya listening to the case dismissed the plea as withdrawn and posted the case for July 8 and requested AG Punjab within the meantime to hunt instruction on the matter.
Difficult the remand order in his plea Majithia submitted that the case was a results of “political witch-hunting and vendetta initiated by the current political dispensation with the only real object of maligning and harassing him, as he has been a vocal critic and political opponent”.
He added that the remand utility filed by the investigating company “lacked concrete or pressing investigative grounds and merely relied on broad, speculative allegations such because the petitioner’s alleged affect, international connections, and common statements about the necessity to confront him with paperwork or digital gadgets”.
It additional said that there was non-application of judicial thoughts, and the stark disregard of binding judicial precedent and procedural safeguards not solely vitiated the remand order but in addition constituted a gross violation of the petitioner’s elementary rights below Articles 14, 20, and 21 of the Structure.
