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Chandigarh, Revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia today claimed that unsubstantiated allegations were being levelled against him. “These allegations are solely aimed at maligning my image. It is an attempt to put me to a media trial,” he said.
Welcoming the ED probe into the Bhola drug scam, the minister said: “After one-and-a-half years of thorough investigation and repeated questioning of the accused, it is now being said that I supposedly received Rs 35 lakh as election fund from one of the accused.” He said this “revelation” by the accused had come in his fourth statement. “No investigating agency or court takes cognisance of such an after-thought self-serving statement,” the minister said.
Majithia said while he was open to a transparent and fair investigation, he deplored the manner in which insinuations about his alleged guilt were being made in the media by interested parties. “I am pained by the fact that vested interests in an august investigating agency are briefing mediapersons about my alleged complicity in drug deals when no evidence of any such complicity on my part has come to light following the questioning of various accused persons.
Information is being systematically leaked to coincide with sessions of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha to create a hysteria,” the minister said.
Majithia pointed out that he had never shied away from the investigation being conducted by the Enforcement Directorate.
