Punjab SIT probing drugs charges against Majithia reconstituted
Chandigarh Mar 20 PTI The Bhagwant Mann-led government in Punjab has reconstituted a special investigation team probing the drugs case in which Shiromani Akali Dal SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia had been booked A minister in the SAD-BJP government Majithia was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act on December 20 last year The new SIT has been constituted under the supervision of Inspector General of Police Crime Gursharan Singh Sandhu according to an order The other members of the SIT are Assistant Inspector Generals AIGs Rahul S and Ranjit Singh Dhillon Deputy Superintendents of Police DSPs Raghbir Singh and Amarpreet Singh it said Earlier the SIT formed by the Charanjit Singh-led government was headed by AIG Balraj Singh Majithia 46 was booked under the NDPS Act on the basis of a 2018 probe report by Additional Director General of Police Harpreet Singh Sidhu into a drug racket in the state The 49-page FIR was registered by the state Crime Branch at its Mohali police station last year Majithia is the brother-in-law of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal PTI CHS VSD CK
Chandigarh Mar 20 PTI The Bhagwant Mann-led government in Punjab has reconstituted a special investigation team probing the drugs case in which Shiromani Akali Dal SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia had been booked A minister in the SAD-BJP government Majithia was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances NDPS Act on December 20 last year The new SIT has been constituted under the supervision of Inspector General of Police Crime Gursharan Singh Sandhu according to an order The other members of the SIT are Assistant Inspector Generals AIGs Rahul S and Ranjit Singh Dhillon Deputy Superintendents of Police DSPs Raghbir Singh and Amarpreet Singh it said Earlier the SIT formed by the Charanjit Singh-led government was headed by AIG Balraj Singh Majithia 46 was booked under the NDPS Act on the basis of a 2018 probe report by Additional Director General of Police Harpreet Singh Sidhu into a drug racket in the state The 49-page FIR was registered by the state Crime Branch at its Mohali police station last year Majithia is the brother-in-law of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal and brother of former Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal PTI CHS VSD CK
