Bikram Majithia case won't stand legal scrutiny: Capt Amarinder Singh

Tribune News Service

Rajpura, December 21

Taking on the Congress government for registering cases against political rivals without following due process of law, Capt Amarinder Singh today said “national security and welfare of Punjab” were top agenda of the BJP-Punjab Lok Congress coalition.

Taking on the Channi government, Captain Amarinder said the case against Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia “will not stand legal scrutiny as the government had not followed due process of law”. Addressing his maiden public rally ever since he announced his party Punjab Lok Congress’s alliance with the BJP, he inducted local Congress leader Jagdish Kumar into the party.

On fresh FIR in the drugs case naming Majithia, he said, “on what basis the government had registered the case against him since the report on drug trafficking is still lying with the Punjab and Haryana HC in a sealed cover. After all, there is law in the country and I am sure it will not stand the legal scrutiny,” he said, adding, “Just because you don’t like someone, you can’t put him behind bars”.

On lynchings, he said the accused should have been handed over to the police. “No civilised society can and should approve of such killings,” he said.

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