Drugs Case: ED summons Punjab minister Bikram Majithia

December 22, 2014 10:58

NDTV reports: A political storm is brewing over the Enforcement Directorate's summons to Punjab's cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia in connection with a money laundering case.

The agency is investigating the international money transaction link in the multi-crore drugs racket detected by the Punjab Police last year.

The ED has summoned Mr Majithia for questioning on December 26 in Jalandhar.

Majithia's name had surfaced after Jagdish Bhola, a man arrested near Delhi last year for drugs trade, alleged in court that it was being run under the minister's patronage and the full knowledge of the state police. The summons to him is based on the statements of Bhola and Bittu Aulakh, a local politician from Ajnala, who was also arrested for links with drug smugglers.

The revenue minister is the brother-in-law of Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. After the controversy broke, he divested of the NRI Affairs portfolio and had to relinquish the post of the president of Youth Wing of the Akali Dal.

Majithia had denied the allegations.

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