Punjab Congress chief Sukhpal Khaira despatched to 14-day judicial custody in 2015 medicine case
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CHANDIGARH: A court docket in Punjab’s Fazilka district despatched Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira to 14-day judicial custody on Saturday in reference to a 2015 medicine case.
Amid tight safety preparations, Khaira was produced within the court docket in Jalalabad after his two-day police remand ended on Saturday, officers stated. Bholath MLA Khaira was arrested on Thursday from his Chandigarh residence.
He was arrested by the Punjab Police following an investigation carried out by a particular investigation crew led by Deputy Inspector General of Police Swapan Sharma within the 2015 medicine case.
The case was registered in March 2015 at Jalalabad in Fazilka. Nine individuals, together with Gurdev Singh, who was allegedly an in depth aide of Khaira, have been booked within the case and later convicted beneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Police had recovered 2 kg of heroin, 24 gold biscuits, one country-made pistol, a 315-bore pistol and two Pakistani SIM playing cards from them. Khaira’s cropped up later in the course of the police probe. However, in 2017, the Supreme Court stayed the trial court docket proceedings in opposition to Khaira who was summoned as an extra accused within the matter.
He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in 2021 on the cost of cash laundering linked to the 2015 drug case. He was granted bail in 2022. In February 2023, the apex court docket quashed the summoning order in opposition to Khaira within the drug case.
The Punjab Congress had known as the police motion in opposition to Khaira a political vendetta, a cost vehemently denied by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party.
CHANDIGARH: A court docket in Punjab’s Fazilka district despatched Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira to 14-day judicial custody on Saturday in reference to a 2015 medicine case.
Amid tight safety preparations, Khaira was produced within the court docket in Jalalabad after his two-day police remand ended on Saturday, officers stated. Bholath MLA Khaira was arrested on Thursday from his Chandigarh residence.
He was arrested by the Punjab Police following an investigation carried out by a particular investigation crew led by Deputy Inspector General of Police Swapan Sharma within the 2015 medicine case.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
The case was registered in March 2015 at Jalalabad in Fazilka. Nine individuals, together with Gurdev Singh, who was allegedly an in depth aide of Khaira, have been booked within the case and later convicted beneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Police had recovered 2 kg of heroin, 24 gold biscuits, one country-made pistol, a 315-bore pistol and two Pakistani SIM playing cards from them. Khaira’s cropped up later in the course of the police probe. However, in 2017, the Supreme Court stayed the trial court docket proceedings in opposition to Khaira who was summoned as an extra accused within the matter.
He was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in 2021 on the cost of cash laundering linked to the 2015 drug case. He was granted bail in 2022. In February 2023, the apex court docket quashed the summoning order in opposition to Khaira within the drug case.
The Punjab Congress had known as the police motion in opposition to Khaira a political vendetta, a cost vehemently denied by the ruling Aam Aadmi Party.
