CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today asserted that after failing to gather evidence in the recently registered false case of Disproportionate Assets case against former minister Bikram Singh Majithia, now Vigilance Officials had started creating false evidence against the Akali leader.
Disclosing this in a press conference here, SAD chief spokesman Arshdeep Singh Kler and advocate Damanbir Singh Sobti said the Vigilance bureau had failed to buttress their claims that 29 Mobiles had been recovered from Mr Majithia including Rs. 141 crore transactions, Rs. 540 crore investment and 1000 acre land in Himachal Pradesh.
They said now the Vigilance department was picking up persons illegally and torturing them to sign statements under sections 164. Giving an example, they said that one SP - GS Bains picked up Balwinder Singh and his brother in law Manjinder Singh from Amritsar on July 21. “They were kept in a private hotel in Amritsar and were compelled to sign their statements u/s 164 stating that investments done by his late brother Rupinder Singh was done with cash given by Bikram Singh Majithia”. The lawyers said next day they were brought to the Vigilance Bureau office in Mohali where IO Inderpal Singh rebuked them in filthy language.
Arshdeep Kler and Damanbir Sobti said that the family of these two persons approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court and a Habeas Corpus petition was filed. “High Court appointed a Warrant officer who raided the Vigilance Bureau office at Mohali along with a team. They said that when the government came to know about this development they were immediately taken to Amritsar and were forced by Vigilance officials to give a statement to their family that they were coming in a bus which they flatly refused.
They further disclosed that now the statement of one Vasu Pathak was being recorded under which Vasu was told to state that one Jeeta Maur made an investment with cash received from Bikram Majithia.