Supreme Court docket to listen to plea towards bail to Bikram Singh Majithia in 4 weeks
New Delhi, February 7
The Punjab Authorities’s attraction towards a Punjab and Haryana Excessive Court docket order granting bail to senior SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia in a drug case might be taken up for listening to after 4 weeks, the Supreme Court docket stated on Tuesday.
“It will likely be troublesome to move over the case immediately. We are going to reasonably checklist it for listening to after 4 weeks,” a Bench led by Justice Aniruddha Bose stated after being requested for a passover as senior counsel Shyam Divan, who was to signify the federal government, was busy in another courtroom.
Majithia, brother-in-law of Sukhbir Badal and brother of former Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, was booked on the idea of a 2018 report of the anti-drug particular job pressure (STF) on a drug racket within the state. The report was primarily based on confessional statements given to the Enforcement Directorate by some accused, together with Jagjit Chahal, Jagdish Singh Bhola and Maninder Singh Aulakh.
The federal government has challenged the August 10, 2022, order of the HC following which Majithia was launched from the Patiala jail after spending greater than 5 months there within the drug case.
The HC had stated there have been “affordable grounds” to imagine that he was not responsible even because it clarified that its commentary was just for deciding the bail software and the trial courtroom ought to proceed independently of the observations made by it. The HC had stated Majithia shall journey overseas solely with permission of this courtroom and shall not tamper with the prosecution proof.
Earlier, the SC had directed the Punjab Police to not arrest Majithia until February 23, 2022, within the drug case to allow him to participate within the election marketing campaign. Nevertheless, it had directed him to give up earlier than the trial courtroom after that.
Booked on foundation of 2018 report
- Bikram Majithia was booked on the idea of a 2018 report of the anti-drug particular job pressure on a drug racket within the state
- It was primarily based on confessional statements given to ED by some accused