Case against Bikram Singh Majithia won’t stand legal scrutiny, says Capt Amarinder Singh

Aman Sood
Tribune News Service
Rajpura, December 21

The case registered Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia won’t stand legal scrutiny, Capt Amarinder Singh said on Tuesday.

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Capt Amarinder Singh, who was speaking at a public meeting held to welcome senior Congress leader Jagdish Kumar Jagga into his own party, the Punjab Lok Congress, wondered how the FIR could be filed given that a probe report on drug trafficking was still with Punjab and Haryana High Court in a sealed cover.

“After all, there is a law in the country and I am sure it will not stand in the court of law,” he said. “Just because you don’t like someone, you can’t put him behind bars.”

Capt Amarinder Singh’s remarks came over Punjab Police’s action of booking former Akali minister Bikram Singh Majithia under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. Amarinder Singh, whose government had instituted investigations into drug allegations in the state, previously resisted calls from his former party MLAs to have Majithia booked when he was still chief minister. Amarinder Singh had maintained then that he could not act with concrete evidence.

Condemning lynching

Capt Amarinder Singh, a former Congressman who stepped down as chief minister in September and since launched his own political party, also condemned recent killings in Durbar Sahib and Kapurthala over sacrilege allegations. The accused should have been handed over to the police, he said.

He also said national security and the welfare of Punjab if his government got elected.

He recently announced his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party for Punjab’s assembly elections due early next year.