Chandigarh, December 24: In a major setback to Senior Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, the Mohali court on Friday dismissed his anticipatory bail application in the drug case.
Additional Sessions Judge-Cum-Judge Special Court Sandeep Kumar Singla noted that the delaying in lodging the FIR cannot be a ground to presume that the whole case against the applicant is false.
“All these facts and financial transactions and extend of the complicity of the applicant needs to be thoroughly investigated which can be done only under custodial interrogation of the applicant and not under the protection of anticipatory bail. Hence, keeping in view all the facts and the gravity of the offense it is not a fit case where the benefit of anticipatory bail can be granted to the bail applicant. Accordingly, finding no merit in the bail application and the same is hereby dismissed,” read the order issued by Additional Session Judge Cum Judge Special Court Sandeep Kumar Singla.
An FIR was lodged against Akali Dal leader and former cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia in a drug case at the State Crime Police Station, Mohali.
The case has been registered under Sections 25, 27A, and 29 NDPS based on a report filed by ADGP Harpreet Sidhu. The FIR has been registered late at night on December 20, 2021.
