PATIALA: Ex-chief minister Amarinder Singh said on Tuesday that the case against former minister Bikram Singh Majithia will not stand legal scrutiny as the government had “not followed the due process of law”. Amarinder claimed that Punjab deputy CM and home minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa was in denial about the drone incursions from Pakistan, while the Congress’s Rajpura and Ghanaur MLAs had “robbed the state”.
Amarinder also inducted senior Congressman Jagdish Kumar Jagga into his party Punjab Lok Congress during a public meeting at Rajpura. Replying to media query about the case against Majithia, he said, “Eh galat parcha hoya (The FIR is wrong). What’s the basis of booking him? The report on drug trafficking remains sealed with the Punjab and Haryana high court. The country has a law and this case will not stand legal scrutiny in its court. Just because you don’t like someone, you can’t put him behind bars.”
Regarding the recent incidents in Amritsar and Kapurthala, Amarinder said sacrilege was unfortunate but killing the accused after interrogating him was “illegal and absolutely unacceptable”. He said, “This was a law-and-order problem.
There are no (spy) agencies behind the sacrilege. What I coud make out from the video, the accused was not mentally balanced. He should have been handed over to police.” On the public anger over justice denied in the Behbal Kalan case, the former CM said his government had fought a long legal battle to reclaim the inquiry from the CBI and arrested 22 people, including some police officials, who were on bail now.
Amarinder also inducted senior Congressman Jagdish Kumar Jagga into his party Punjab Lok Congress during a public meeting at Rajpura. Replying to media query about the case against Majithia, he said, “Eh galat parcha hoya (The FIR is wrong). What’s the basis of booking him? The report on drug trafficking remains sealed with the Punjab and Haryana high court. The country has a law and this case will not stand legal scrutiny in its court. Just because you don’t like someone, you can’t put him behind bars.”
Regarding the recent incidents in Amritsar and Kapurthala, Amarinder said sacrilege was unfortunate but killing the accused after interrogating him was “illegal and absolutely unacceptable”. He said, “This was a law-and-order problem.
There are no (spy) agencies behind the sacrilege. What I coud make out from the video, the accused was not mentally balanced. He should have been handed over to police.” On the public anger over justice denied in the Behbal Kalan case, the former CM said his government had fought a long legal battle to reclaim the inquiry from the CBI and arrested 22 people, including some police officials, who were on bail now.
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