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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Day After, Capt Says No Hard Feelings For Khaira

CHANDIGARH: A day after former Congress spokesperson Sukhpal Singh Khaira joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab Congress president Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday welcomed a new group of leaders to the party.

He, however, refused to link the leaders’ induction in the Congress with Khaira leaving the party by saying that the Congress was like an ocean and one person leaving it did not matter much. “Khaira’s father was my associate and he (Sukhpal) is like my son. Maybe he sees a better future in AAP,” said Amarinder, who was accompanied by former MPs Manish Tewari and Jagmeet Brar, Abohar MLA Sunil Jakhar and senior vice-president Lal Singh.

Apart from AAP members from MP Bhagwant Mann’s constituency, Sangrur, leaders of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), including a former Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) member, also joined the Congress in Amarinder’s presence here on Saturday.

Asked about Khaira’s outburst against him, Amarinder said, “When someone quits a party, he is not expected to say good things. Further, AAP leaders joining Congress should not be seen as a reply to Khaira’s exit. If one person has left, so many others have joined Congress today.”

Reacting to Khaira’s charge that his contributions in Congress were not acknowledged, Amarinder and Tewari recounted going to his house in 1998 as Punjab Congress and All India Youth Congress presidents, respectively, to offer him the post of state Youth Congress president. “How many times is a politician made such an offer?” asked Tewari.

Replaying to another question, Amarinder rubbished Khaira’s charge that he was ‘hand in glove’ with the Badals. “If that was true, why should I be having to go to court hearings every week? I have zero contact with him. In fact, I never got along with him even 25 years ago. Sukhbir was studying abroad at that time,” he said. He claimed that he had falsely been implicated by the Badals in two cases and had been fighting in court for nine years.

Amarinder claimed that though the 2017 Punjab assembly elections may see a triangular contest, Congress was on a firm footing and the SAD had lost face after Bargari firing. For AAP, he said it did not have any organizational structure. “Arvind Kejriwal government has done badly in Delhi; I will be acquiring getting data on their performance shortly to prove this,” he said.

Lashing out at the ruling alliance, the Amritsar MP said with every passing day it was getting from bad to worse in Punjab.

On AAP’s claims of cashing in on what the party claims its popularity among young voters, Amarinder said Congress was the only party in Punjab which can provide an efficient governance. “Besides, I regularly interact with people from Punjab on my Facebook page; most of them are youth who support the party for its past performances,” he said.

 Those who joined Congress on Saturday included grass-root workers and circle in-charges of AAP from Sangrur, but it was Jathedar Inder Mohan Singh, ex-SGPC member from Sunam, who was the most prominent face to cross over to the party. Fieldworkers of BSP (Talwandi Sabo) and a group of SAD and independent leaders, including a SAD councillor from Moga, also joined the Congress.

Reference:

http://www.dmediagroup.ca/day-after-capt-says-no-hard-feelings-for-khaira/