SAD chief Sukhbir detained in Mohali, solidarity march for Majithia thwarted
Jul 02, 2025 12:26 PM IST
Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was whisked away from Gurdwara Amb Sahib in Mohali, accused the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP authorities of imposing an “undeclared emergency” within the state.
Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and his occasion employees had been taken into preventive custody by Punjab Police in Mohali on Wednesday to stop them from marching to the district courtroom advanced to precise solidarity with SAD chief Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been arrested in a disproportionate property case.
Majithia is to be produced in a Mohali courtroom as his seven-day vigilance remand involves an finish. Heavy police deployment has been made outdoors the Vigilance Bureau (VB) workplace and the district courtroom advanced in Mohali.
Badal, who was whisked away from Gurdwara Amb Sahib in Mohali, accused the Bhagwant Mann-led AAP authorities of imposing an “undeclared emergency” within the state for cracking down on SAD employees who had the appropriate to precise solidarity with Majithia.
“Bhagwant Mann has imposed an undeclared emergency in Punjab. Akali employees continuing to Mohali at this time for expressing solidarity with Bikram Singh Majithia, who has been framed in a false case by the Aam Aadmi Occasion authorities, are being detained at their homes and even being stopped at nakas (police checkpoints) put up on all main roads. Such repressive acts smack of cowardice. It’s clear that chief minister @BhagwantMann is rattled by the outpouring of help for Bikram,” Badal posted on X.
“I wish to make it clear that Akali Dal and its employees is not going to be deterred by such repressive acts. Previously additionally the Akalis have countered repression with individuals’s actions. Now additionally we are going to train a befitting lesson to the corrupt and dictatorial @AamAadmiParty regime with the help of Punjabis,” he stated.
In keeping with the occasion, its employees in Amritsar, Beas and different locations throughout Punjab have been detained at their homes.
The VB arrested Majithia on June 25 for his alleged involvement in laundering over ₹540 crore of drug cash. He was despatched to seven-day vigilance remand on June 26 by a Mohali courtroom.
Within the FIR registered, the VB claimed that preliminary investigations revealed that the drug cash was laundered by means of a number of methods and it was allegedly facilitated by Majithia.
The FIR stems from an ongoing investigation being performed by a Punjab Police particular investigation crew into the 2021 medication case.
In 2021, Majithia was booked below the Narcotic Medication and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on the premise of a 2018 report of the anti-drug particular process power. After spending greater than 5 months in Patiala jail, he walked free in August 2022 after the Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom granted him bail.
