Chandigarh:- The Punjab and Haryana High Court has rejected the bail plea of ??Shiromani Akali Dal senior leader and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia in the disproportionate assets case. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau had arrested Majithia on June 25 in a Rs 540 crore drug money laundering case.
Special Public Prosecutor Ferry Soft said while talking to the media here that considering the seriousness of the case, the court of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya rejected Majithia's bail plea. Earlier, a court in Mohali had rejected Majithia's bail plea. Majithia is currently lodged in the New Nabha Jail in Patiala. Majithia has described the case against him as an act of political vendetta.
A case was registered against Majithia under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in 2021. The action was taken on the basis of a 2018 report by the Anti-Narcotics Special Task Force. The Vigilance Bureau claims that preliminary investigation has revealed that over Rs 540 crore of "drug money" was laundered through various means. Following the FIR, the Vigilance Bureau filed a 40,000-page chargesheet in the DA case.