Akali leader Bikram Majithia's bail hearing on Friday

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 23

Akali leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Thursday applied for bail before the court of additional sessions judge, Mohali.

The bail application hearing has been posted for Friday. Court of Additional Sessions Judge Sandeep Singla has asked the Punjab Police to submit a record pertaining to the FIR against Majithia.

Lawyers DS Sobti and HS Dhanoa are representing Majithia.

Majithia in his bail plea said the ruling Congress in the state was indulging in witch-hunting.

Praying for bail, he pleaded that the Congress had booked him in a false case to use it as an election plank.

A lookout notice for Majithia was issued on Wednesday.

Majithia was booked in a case under the NDPS Act.

Majithia said, “In the run-up to the polls, witch-hunting of the political opponents has gone to its peak. The government has changed three DGPs over the span of three months. The Bureau of Investigation has also seen three departmental heads/directors change. Police officers have been forced and coerced to falsely implicate the applicant/petitioner or face transfers, charge-sheets and dire consequences. Officers have also been induced with promotions and plum postings if they toe the line of the government.”

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