From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Justice Surya Kant of the Supreme Court on Monday recused himself from hearing an appeal by the Punjab government challenging the Punjab and Haryana High Court to grant a regular bail to Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikramjit Singh Mahithia in a drug case.
Majithia, a minister in the Akali Dal- BJP government of Punjab, had surrendered after February 20 state assembly polls and he was granted bail by the High Court on August 10 last year.
He was charged with allowing illicit drug smuggling and harbouring offenders involved in the drug trade.
The Punjab police had registered FIR under Sections 25 (allowing premises etc. to be used for commission of an offence under the Act), 27A (financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) and 29 (abetment and criminal conspiracy) Narcotic Drugs And Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 against Majithia at Bureau of Investigation (BoI) in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali).
