Mohali: Former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia, who's an accused in a medicine case, has claimed menace to his life in jail and sought safety from the courtroom. Majithia filed the appliance on Tuesday whereas showing within the courtroom on the finish of his custody. The courtroom prolonged his judicial custody until April 19 and issued a discover to the authorities, to file a reply on safety to the Akali chief in jail by April 6.
In his software, filed by way of his counsel, Majithia has said that he feared for his life in jail and sought instructions to the jail authorities to make sure safety whereas in judicial custody of this courtroom.
When Majithia surrendered in a courtroom in Mohali on February 24, 2022, he was despatched to Sangrur jail. Nevertheless, the officers didn't contemplate it to be safe sufficient and took Majithia to Patiala Central Jail, the place he's presently lodged.
His counsel has made an extended record of allegations towards the AAP authorities.
The appliance said that after the change of political dispensation within the state, the jails minister had visited the barrack, the place the applicant is lodged, instantly after assuming workplace and was accompanied by safety officers carrying weapons, which is barred below the jail guide.