Hans News Service Chandigarh

A Punjab Police Special Investigation Team, probing a Rs 6,000 crore drug case, has summoned senior Akali leader and former minister Bikram Singh Majithia to appear before it on October 5, official sources said on Wednesday.

The SIT has also summoned dismissed Punjab Police cop Jagdish Bhola on the same date, they said. The SIT may question both Majithia and Bhola face-to-face for the first time in the multi-crore drug racket case.

Bhola, a former wrestler, was arrested in November 2013 by the Punjab police in connection with the drug racket. In 2014, Bhola had named Majithia in the drug racket, a charge which was vehemently denied by the senior Akali leader.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) later had also investigated the case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. The ED sleuths had questioned Majithia in 2014 in connection with the case when he was the minister in the then Akali government. Majithia was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on December 20, 2021, when the then chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government was in power.

The action was taken on the basis of a 2018 report of the anti-drug Special Task Force (STF) of the Punjab Police.