FIR against Majithia state govt's panic reaction ahead of polls, says Sukhbir Badal

GS Paul

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 21

SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday said in the run-up to the Assembly polls, it was a panic reaction from the Congress that a case was registered against former SAD minister and Majitha MLA Bikram Singh Majithia and a weak SIT was formed to investigate the sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple.

Badal was here to participate at the ‘pashchatap paath’ (prayers for remorse) following the sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple on Saturday evening.

He emphasised that the Congress had been playing politics on the sensitive issue of sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple and shying away from its responsibility of taking serious action to unveil the conspiracy behind it.

He said that, be it sacrilege or drug issue, the whole state administration and police machinery was pressed into service to target the Badals and Majithia, despite the fact that the High Court had already snubbed the state government over its political motives.

Referring to the drug issue (with which Bikram Majithia was being linked), he said that the CM, the home minister and the DGP conspired against Majithia in a frivilous drug case. “When no SSP or police officer readied to adhere to the state government’s orders, one ‘thana’ (Bureau of Investigation, Mohali) under DGP (Sidharth) Chattopadhaya, was misused to conspire against us and an FIR was lodged on frivolous grounds. This was the second FIR that was lodged in this thana,” he said.

He said the police officers and Congress leaders involved in registering fake FIRs would not be spared once the SAD-BSP government came to power.  "We will fight legal battle against it, reinvestigate and the 'guilty' police officials would be dismissed for registering a fake FIR,” he said.