Sukhbir guilty of misleading House: Report

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 14

A Vidhan Sabha committee has held Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal guilty of misleading the House during the monsoon session.

The panel was formed during the last session to look into claims by the Akali Dal leader as regards meetings between radical Sikh leader Baljit Singh Daduwal and Chief Minister Amarinder Singh at the latter’s residence and at a farmhouse in New Chandigarh.

The panel headed by Cooperatives Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa submitted its report in the Vidhan Sabha today. The report said all allegations levelled by the Akali Dal president were false.

In the last session, Badal had claimed that the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission report on sacrilege cases was fabricated. He had accused several ruling party leaders and AAP MLAs of having “dictated the report for their own political gains”.

He had then flashed call records of those leaders, along with mobile phone tower locations, claiming they were together at one place where the report was dictated. Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh had then refuted the allegations.

The report said the five-member committee took help of the Home Department and the police to check CCTV footage as regards any entry of Daduwal’s vehicle into the official residence of the Chief Minister. The panel also got in touch with mobile phone companies to check if the tower IDs given by Sukhbir were correct. “We found that no such tower IDs existed in the vicinity of the farmhouse where, according to Sukhbir, the meetings had taken place,” the report said.