Overview
- A Mohali court granted a four-day extension of Bikram Singh Majithia’s vigilance remand in the ₹540 crore disproportionate assets case.
- Punjab Vigilance Bureau teams searched Majithia’s Majitha office under heavy security during early-morning proceedings.
- The Narcotics Control Bureau’s Amritsar unit has formally requested access to case documents for joint interrogation of the Akali Dal leader.
- Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal and several party workers were taken into preventive custody while heading to Mohali to support Majithia.
- Majithia’s petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court challenging his FIR and arrest as “political witch-hunting” remains pending.