Former Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia has been awarded bail in the Punjab NDPS drugs-related case on Wednesday by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. The case was registered against him by the last Punjab Congress government under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in December 2021.
The Akali Dal leader has asserted that he has been framed by the Congress government. But the state government alleges that he had been part of an ‘international drug syndicate’.
Majithiw was kept in Patiala Central Jail on February 24. He had moved to Supreme Court to get the case against him taken aback. A bench constituting Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justices AS Bopanna and Hima Kohli had, however, ordered Majithia to surrender before a trial court after the Punjab assembly elections on February 20.
The pre-arrest bail appeal of Majithia, who was caught under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on December 20 last year, was rejected by the Punjab and Haryana High Court on January 24. An appeal had been requested in the apex court.
Majithia is the SAD MLA and brother-in-law of SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal. He had contested the February 20 polls from the Amritsar East constituency, from where Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu is pursuing re-election.
