Chandigarh, January 25
A city-based lawyer has lodged a complaint with the CBI against Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal and Bikram Singh Majithia for allegedly exercising power illegally.
Advocate Himmat Singh Shergill had earlier filed a PIL in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. However, the HC on December 15 had asked him to approach an investigating agency and thereafter, approach the court if the problem remains unsolved.
In his complaint, Shergill alleged that Badal and his son exercised their executive powers in an illegal and manipulative manner to provide monetary benefits to the companies owned by the Badal family. Most irregularities happened after they came into power in March 2007.
Calling it a well-planned and institutionalised corruption, Shergill demanded a thorough probe by the CBI.
Shergill had submitted the annual returns, director's reports and balance sheets of various companies that "established ownership of Parkash Singh Badal and his family". "They are running family businesses out of the state's exchequer", he alleged in the complaint.
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