The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday granted interim anticipatory bail to former Minister and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a case related to allowing illicit drugs smuggling and harbouring offenders involved in drug trade.
The former Minister’s counsel D.S. Sobti said that his client has been granted interim bail in the matter and would join the investigation on January 12.
The Punjab police have registered an FIR under Sections 25 (allowing premises etc to be used for commission of an offence under the Act), 27A (financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) and 29 (abetment and criminal conspiracy) Narcotic Drugs And Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 against Mr. Majithia at Bureau of Investigation (BoI) in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali).
Mr. Majithia had approached the High Court after, a local Mohali Court dismissed his anticipatory bail application in the case.