SAD asks CM and HM to tell Punjabis what complaint they were probing against Majithia
- December 16, 2021
- Updated: 01:34 am
DW BUREAU / Chandigarh
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and home minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa to make Punjabis aware of the complaint they were probing against former minister Bikram Singh Majithia even as it asserted that the government was offering promotions and even rewards to police officers for the arrest of Mr Majithia.
Addressing a press conference here in reaction to the chief minister's statement regarding the letter written by the Bureau of Investigations (BOI) head S K Asthana to the DGP in which the officer has pointed out the illegalities the BOI is being forced to commit to proceed against Mr Bikram Majithia, SAD Spokesman Maheshinder Singh Grewal said the letter was an indictment of the crude and illegal manner in which the government was indulging in vendetta politics.
Stating that even though the chief minister had asserted that there would not be any vendetta in his tenure "the exact opposite is happening. The situation has become such that after three successive officers of the BOI have refused to obey the illegal orders of the government all that remains is for Mr Channi and home minister Sukhjinder Randhawa to take over the powers of the Station House Officer (SHO)".
Giving further details of the extra ?constitutional manner in which the Congress government was conducting a witch hunt against Mr Majithia, the SAD leader said the original complaint against Mr Majithia was made by a drug dealer by the name of Jagdish Bhola. "The trial in the case is over and even conviction has been done. The chief minister and the home minister should tell how they could investigate a case which had been decided already". He said it was condemnable that the government was trying to serve kangaroo justice in the case by dangling the carrot of promotion to an IG who was being offered the job of the head of BOI upon appointment as an ADGP. Even the Patiala SSP is also being shifted after he refused to proceed against Mr Majithia".
The SAD Spokesman also gave details of how the report of the STF in the Jagdish Bhola which had been submitted to the high court in a sealed envelope had already been made public by PCC President Navjot Sidhu. He said subsequently the high court had appointed a two member committee of the State DGP and the home secretary to give its report in the case. 'This report should also be made public",
he added.
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