Majithia drug case: New SIT strikes Mohali court docket to situation search warrants

The counsel of former Punjab income minister Majithia additionally filed a plea searching for a replica of the SIT’s utility and particulars pertaining to the areas the place it needs to provoke the search. The counsel stated that earlier investigating groups had already carried out searches on Majithia’s properties in 2022.

The counsel for the previous minister stated that the SIT must comply with the process for search and seizure underneath part 41 NDPS. “In case the SIT needs to go looking properties of Majithia’s associates after 4 years, they’ve to present possible trigger”, the defence counsel stated.

Nevertheless, the SIT and the state attorneys objected to the plea of Majithia’s lawyer, citing that it could hamper the investigation.

The matter comes up for a listening to on April 5.

After 4 SITs in three years did not pin any blame on Majithia within the Narcotic Medicine and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) case registered in opposition to him on December 20, 2021, the Punjab authorities reconstituted the fifth SIT, led by the assistant inspector basic (AIG) Varun Sharma, on March 31. The event got here two weeks after Majithia was grilled by the fourth SIT in Patiala for a number of hours for 2 consecutive days in mid-March.

Majithia had taken a dig on the new SIT and known as its reconstitution “a traditional case of political vendetta”.

With a raft of SITs reporting no clinching proof in opposition to Majithia to this point, the Akali chief has been daring the Mann authorities to file a challan in opposition to him in court docket.

“It has been 4 years because the FIR was registered, and three years to the formation of the SIT, however no challan has been submitted. Maybe, the chief minister ought to head the SIT. Mann is baffled and bewildered (with no end result). I perceive his predicament as a result of I’m among the many few who communicate up in opposition to him regardless of the environment of worry within the state”, he had stated in a video shared on social media.

He stated that with each new SIT, the rank of its chairman had been lowered. “They began by appointing a DGP-rank officer, and have now downgraded it to an AIG,” he stated.

AIG Varun Sharma has changed deputy inspector basic (DIG) Ropar Vary HS Bhullar. Sharma was a member of the outgoing SIT.

Majithia has appeared earlier than the SITs greater than 10 instances. Nevertheless, not one of the SITs have reached any conclusion and have did not file a challan in opposition to the previous minister.