The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asked chief minister Bhagwant Mann and State Police chief Gaurav Yadav to explain why they were trying to fabricate evidence against senior leader Bikram Singh Majithia by arm-twisting former Akali leader Upkar Singh Sandhu to become a witness in the case and even submit a false testimony.
Addressing a press conference here, SAD legal wing president Arshdeep Singh Kler said Upkar Sandhu was first summoned as a witness in the case and when he refused to join the probe into the false drug case registered against Majithia two years back, he was asked to sign a false testimony. “An advocate – Sarabjit Verka visited Upkar Sandhu and asked him to sign a testimony to implicate Bikram Majithia”.
Arshdeep Kler said following this, the typed statement given to Upkar Sandhu for appending his signatures was submitted to the DGP Gaurav Yadav on December 26. “We have asked the DGP to tell why the government tried to include Sandhu as a witness in the case through a fabricated statement”. He said this act itself had compromised the SIT.
He also pointed out that the government’s intentions in the case aimed to intimidate Mr Majithia and silence him. “Majithia was summoned for investigation by the SIT immediately after he came out in support of the chief minister’s daughter who has accused her father of indulging in cruel acts. “Before this the SIT had not called him even once even though it was instituted five months ago”. He said the SIT head – ADGP MS Chhina was also being arm twisted by the AAP government as disciplinary proceedings were pending against him for the breach in the Prime Minister’s security in 2022 and he was being forced to act against Majithia on the eve of his retirement on December 31.
Lauding Sandhu for coming out and exposing the nefarious designs of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government, the SAD leader said “now it is clear that the government does not want to conduct any free and fair probe into the case”. He also disclosed that Sandhu had kept aside political differences to expose the AAP government.
