A Mohali court extended the remand of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikramjit Singh Majithia, who is in the custody of the Vigilance Bureau (VB) in connection with a disproportionate assets case, by four days.
After his seven-day vigilance remand ended on Wednesday, Majithia was produced in court amid tight security. Public prosecutor Ferry Sofat said the Vigilance Bureau had filed an application for the extension of his police remand. Ahead of the court hearing, which lasted for three hours, even the Vigilance Bureau had tightened the security arrangements at its office.
Majithia had been arrested by the Vigilance Bureau on June 25 in an alleged case of laundering of Rs 540-crore “drug money”. In a fresh FIR lodged against Majithia, the VB said that according to preliminary investigations, Majithia had facilitated laundering of over Rs 540 crore of "drug money" through several ways.
This FIR relates to an ongoing investigation being conducted by a Punjab Police special investigation team into a 2021 drug case., Majithia had been booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act in 2021 on the basis of a 2018 report of the anti-drug Special Task Force. After spending more than five months in Patiala jail, Majithia was released in August 2022 after the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted him bail.
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