AAP Leader Sanjay Singh Gets Bail in Defamation Case in Punjab

Singh had accused Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia of being involved in a narcotics trade.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh. (Photo: IANS) 

A Ludhiana court, on Monday, granted bail to Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Sanjay Singh in a defamation case filed against him by Punjab’s Revenue and Public Relations Minister Bikram Singh Majithia.

Singh was granted bail after furnishing a personal bond of Rs.50,000. The case will be heard on February 20.

Majithia filed the case after Sanjay Singh called him a “drug lord” and accused him of being associated with narcotics trade in the state.

Sanjay Singh told the media outside the court that he stood by his comments on Majithia.

I will say this a thousand times that Majithia is involved in drugs smuggling in Punjab. I appeared before the court on my own as I respect the judicial system.

<b>Sanjay Singh, AAP leader</b>

Singh, a close associate of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, also dared Majithia to file a police case against him instead of filing the defamation case.

The AAP is challenging the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance and the Congress in the February 2017 assembly polls.

Majithia is a cabinet minister in Punjab and the brother-in-law of Deputy Chief Minister and Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal. Majithia is the younger brother of India’s food processing minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal.