Vigilance arrests Akali Dal firebrand leader in DA case
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ June 25,2025
Firebrand leader of shiromani akali dal and former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia has been arrested by a team of the Punjab Vigilance Bureau after a raid on his residence in Amritsar.
After his formal arrest, he is taken to Mohali, where an FIR is registered against him. It is learnt that a fresh case is registered against him for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.
Before his arrest, shiromani akali dal general secretary Bikram Singh Majithia on his social media account said “Yesterday (on June 24,2025) Punjab vigilance bureau has registered a fresh FIR against me at Chandigarh under Prevention of Corruption Act. He made this statement after vigilance bureau team reached his Amritsar based residence for a formal inspection, raid, checking.
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The new FIR is registered after from findings during the ongoing probe into 2021 drug-trafficking case registered against key SAD leader. Vigilance Bureau officials say financial documents and transactions linked to Bikram Singh Majithia show discrepancies, prompting the action under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
As per available information, besides Majithia’s Amritsar residence, simultaneous raids were carried out at 26 properties across Punjab. Nine of the properties are in Amritsar district.
Majithia is out on bail in the drug-trafficking case registered under Sections 25, 27A, and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
Vigilance arrests akali dal firebrand leader in DA case. On March 17, 2025, Punjab Police SIT had summoned Majithia in ongoing drug case registered against him. The SIT member Varun Sharma, IP had said that “during the investigation, huge suspicious financial irregularities were found in the firms owned by Bikram Singh Majithia and his family members. A huge cash was deposited both in Indian and abroad accounts during the period when Bhola Drug Case was unearthed. Financial transactions were found made in overseas firms.the SIT had asked questions about the sudden rise in assets, financial transactions made in Bikram Singh Majithia’s account.”
