Chandigarh: While addressing the media here today, Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira slammed Captain Amarinder Singh for unleashing political vendetta against him, on the lines of his friendly predecessors Badals.
LoP Khaira said the wrongful and erroneous summoning by a Fazilka court under 319 has been done at the behest of Captain Amarinder Singh through his politically motivated prosecution machinery. He said these maliciously false allegations of the Captain government are yet another attempt to intimidate me and gag my voice against corruption and other misdeeds. Khaira stated that the conspiracy to nail him in an utterly false drugs case amounted to shooting the messenger and silencing the voice of whistleblowers.
Khaira while lambasting the government said it was sad to note, that while Captain Amarinder Singh is blatantly shielding the actual drug kingpin Bikram Majithia despite sensational evidence against him, I am being framed falsely to settle scores, he said.
Khaira wondered how an Additional Public Prosecutor of Fazilka could move a vague application seeking my summoning when he was neither named in the FIR nor in the chargesheet nor in any statement of independent witnesses. Khaira said that when the drug scandal broke out in March 2015 then Badal government has set up a Special Investigation Team(SIT) headed by the then IG Bathinda Zone, DIG Ferozepur Range and SSP Fazilka as its members. The SIT went deeply into the case but could not find anything incriminating against me because of which my name never figured in FIR, Chargesheet and the trial. It is also astonishing how a court could summon him when the trial in the said drug case has concluded.
Khaira said that it was surprising that he is being summoned on the basis of call records which have been wrongly presented by the Additional PP to the Fazilka court accusing him of 78 times etc., whereas after the perusal of call records these are negligible. (call details chart attached along with)
If merely making telephone calls to an accused was an offence, then why is Majithia being spared when drug lords like Jagdish Bhola, Bittu Aulakh, Jagjit Chahal etc. have named him in the chargesheet prepared by the Enforcement Directorate? Has the Punjab prosecution moved any application under 319 to summon Bikram Majithia in various drug cases pending trial in different courts, said LoP.
If associating with someone or calling a person is such a serious offence to involve a Leader of Opposition in a maliciously false drug case, then Captain Amarinder Singh must explain his meetings, links etc. with Mr. Peter Virdee an international defaulter and tax evader to the tune of 100 million Pounds, who was arrested early this year. The said offender Peter Virdee hosted a dinner for Captain Amarinder Singh during his recent visit to London, beside him being a guest while in Chandigarh, disclosed Khaira.
Khaira trashed all frivolous charges of drugs being leveled against him first by the Badals in 2015 and the same now being repeated by Captain Amarinder Singh. Khaira dared Captain and said he will not be cowed down, intimidated or gagged by these grossly false summoning and will challenge the same in the High Court shortly.