Alleging a plot, Bikram Majithia moves HC

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 17

Adding a twist to the ongoing drug menace case, SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court claiming that a “definite, malicious and malafide agenda” was being pursued by his political opponents to target him.

Names Dy CM, Sidhu

Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and Navjot Singh Sidhu have been demonstrating intense hatred for the applicant, who is their political rival. Bikram Majithia, SAD Leader

He specifically named Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and PCC chief Navjot Singh Sidhu in his plea. In his 124-page application for being arrayed as a respondent, Majithia claimed an impression was being given time and again that he had been “insulated from a just investigation process, which was contrary to the truth”.

In his petition filed through senior counsel RS Cheema with Arshdeep Singh Cheema, Majithia added the applications were filed at different points in time with the extraneous motive of gaining political advantage in the electoral arena and with the objective of tarnishing his image. “Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister, and Navjot Singh Sidhu, president, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, have been demonstrating intense hatred for the applicant, who is their political rival, being one of the leaders of the SAD,” he said.

Majithia said a report filed by STF chief Harpreet Singh Sidhu in a sealed cover was perused and re-sealed by the Bench, but it was deliberately leaked and handed over to the PCC president. The application is expected to come up for hearing with the main case on Thursday.