DW BUREAU / Chandigarh

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau took Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia to his office in Amritsar's Majitha on Tuesday in connection with a disproportionate assets case registered against the former minister. A heavy police force was deployed near Majithia's office with barricades raised to prevent his party's supporters from reaching there. The vigilance bureau team remained for over an hour at the office.

His wife Ganieve Kaur, an Akali MLA from the Majitha seat, and her supporters were stopped from heading towards the office even before the vigilance bureau officials reached there.

She could be seen arguing with police officials, saying the vigilance bureau team could undertake a search operation in the office, but "I should be allowed to go".

"I want to sit in my office. I am the local MLA. I am not going to break any law," Kaur said and asked police officials for any written order that bars her from going to the office.

She lashed out at the AAP government, accusing it of targeting her husband for "exposing" its "failures".

(editor@dailyworld.in)