Back to square one, AIG to AIG: SIT officers investigating Majthia’s drug case changed; new SIT chief also a ‘Majhail’
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ April 1,2025
The Punjab police authorities has formed a new special investigation team (SIT) to investigate drugs case registered against former Akali minister Bikram Singh Majithia.
Akali stalwart Majithia was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on December 20, 2021 during the Charanjit Singh Channi led Congress government
The new team comprises Varun Sharma, AIG (Provisioning) as SIT head, SSP, Tarn Taran, Abhimanyu Rana and SP, NRI, Patiala, Gurbans Singh Bains as members.
Sharma replaced DIG HS Bhullar as SIT head. The three-member SIT constituted in January 2024 had the then Patiala SSP, Varun Sharma, and Dhuri SP Yogesh Sharma as its members.
Back to square one: The investigation was started from an AIG ranked officer. The officers to head SIT were upgraded from AIG to IG to ADGP ranked and then a U turn begins and a DIG ranked officers was appointed to head SIT and now once again an AIG ranked officer to investigate the drugs case registered against Majithia. The investigation was first started by AIG ranked officer in 2021 and in slightly more that three years again an AIG ranked officer will investigate the case.
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The first SIT was headed by AIG Balraj Singh. Then an IG ranked Officer Rahul S was appointed as the SIT head. Then IGP ranked officer Mukhwinder Singh Chhina (IG, Patiala) was made the SIT head. After that an ADGP ranked officer Mukhwinder Singh Chhina was asked to do the investigation. Later DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar was made SIT head with the then Patiala SSP, Varun Sharma, and Dhuri SP Yogesh Sharma as its members. Now, AIG Varun Sharma, SSP, Tarn Taran, Abhimanyu Rana and SP, NRI, Patiala, Gurbans Singh Bains will investigate the sensitive case from April 2025.
Back to square one, AIG to AIG: SIT officers investigating Majthia’s drug case changed; new SIT chief also a ‘Majhail’ . Varun Sharma , AIG (Provisioning) belongs to Gurdaspur, Majha area. The residents from Majha area are also known as ‘Majhails“. This is now the fifth SIT that will carry out the probe against Majithia.
In August 2022,A Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) bench had granted bail to Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a 2021 drugs case.
The HC bench of justice MS Ramachandra Rao and justice Sureshwar Thakur, while allowing the May 23 plea from Majithia, had observed that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the Akali leader was not guilty of the offences charged against him and that he was not likely to commit such offences while on bail.
Majithia had also claimed innocence, saying that the police had no proof against him due to which it could not submit any challan. Whereas after the last investigation done by DIG Bhullar team had claimed that the SIT is investing the case thoroughly and have ample proof to nail Majithia.
