No action in drug case, claims Bajwa

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 4

Throwing a spanner at the Modi government at the Centre and the Congress government in Punjab, Rajya Sabha MP Partap Bajwa today alleged shoddy investigations into cases involving drug mafia in the state.

In a letter to the Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Law and Justice, Bajwa pointed out that no effort had been made by the Centre or Punjab to take forward the investigations on the basis of report on a police-politician-drug mafia nexus, submitted by the STF led by Harpreet Singh Sidhu.

Bajwa’s letter comes in the backdrop of Congress MLAs taking on their own government during the Budget session on the issue of drug, transport and sand mafia.

He said, “Efforts of the SIT, comprising Siddharth Chattopadhyaya, Prabodh Kumar and Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, and of the STF are lying in sealed covers with the Punjab and Haryana High Court, while those selling drugs have their identities protected and continue to trade. No action has been taken on any of these reports. The names of several senior officers cropped up in this investigation as also the names of several politicians, but they are lying in the sealed cover instead of being acted upon.”

Writes to Centre

In a letter to the Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister of Law and Justice, Rajya Sabha member Partap Singh Bajwa pointed out that no effort had been made by the Centre or Punjab to take forward the investigations on the basis of a report on a police-politician-drug mafia nexus, submitted by the STF led by Harpreet Singh Sidhu.