Khaira's Name Missing From Chargesheet Filed in Smuggling Case

FAZILKA/BATHINDA: Fazilka Police filed chargesheet in the six-month-old case of cross-border smuggling in a Jalalabad court on Wednesday without mentioning the name of former Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira. Police had earlier tried to link Khaira to smuggling racket kingpin Gurdev Singh Bholath.

A special investigation team was formed under Ferozepur range deputy inspector general of police to investigate Khaira's name in the smuggling case. His name is missing from the challan that the police filed after investigations in the matter. Jalalabad Sadar police on Wednesday filed the chargesheet in the court against eight persons accusing them of smuggling drugs from across the border.

Terming it a deep-rooted conspiracy to defame him, Khaira had approached the Punjab and Haryana high court and demanded CBI investigation in the matter, which is still pending in the court and would be taken up on Thursday. Khaira said, "It is vindication of my apprehensions that police were trying to implicate me in a false case on the directions of deputy chief minister Sukhbir Badal, revenue minister Bikram Majithia and Bholath MLA Jagir Kaur.

On March 9, Fazilka Police had arrested eight persons running an international drug smuggling racket with 2kg heroin, two SIM cards of Mobilink company of Pakistan, 1 Pakistani mobile phone and 24 gold biscuits weighing 333 grams. Police had then identified former chairman of Dhilwan market committee Gurdev Singh Bholath as the kingpin in the racket and had also named former Congress MLA Khaira as closely linked to him. Police had also claimed that Gurdev held telephonic conversation with Khaira 78 times in the last 11 months before his arrest.

When contacted, Fazilka senior superintendent of police Swapan Sharma said, "The chargesheet was filed against the arrested persons and further investigations are still on. As a special investigation team is probing the case, only senior officials can comment on it."

When contacted,

Ferozepur DIG Amar Singh Chahal declined to comment on the issueKhaira's name missing from the chargesheet

tnnHe said, "SIT is investigating the case and the matter is pending with the high court."
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