Chandigarh: Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia on Monday approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking anticipatory bail.
Majithia was booked under the NDPS Act and his bail plea was rejected by a Mohali court on December 24.
The plea, moved by Majithia’s counsels Damanbir Singh Sobti and Arshdeep Singh Cheema, submitted that “to target the applicant/petitioner is one of the major election planks of the current government” led by the Congress in Punjab.
Last week, Majithia, 46, was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on the basis of a 2018 report of a probe into a drug racket in Punjab.