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Former Minister successful the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) authorities successful Punjab, Laljit Singh Bhullar, was arrested connected Monday (March 23, 2026) successful transportation with the decease of a State warehousing corp official, who allegedly died by termination past week.
Mr. Bhullar was arrested from Mandi Gobindgarh successful Fatehgarh Sahib district, Amritsar Police Commissioner Gurpreet Singh told media persons successful Amritsar. He volition beryllium produced successful a tribunal connected Tuesday.
Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, territory manager of the Punjab Warehousing Corporation successful Amritsar, allegedly died by termination connected Saturday aft consuming what appeared to beryllium a poisonous substance arsenic seen successful a purported video linked to the incident. In the video, Randhawa had accused Mr. Bhullar of harassing him by pressuring to grant a tender to the erstwhile Minister’s aide.
The Opposition parties asserted that the apprehension came pursuing the unit built by them connected the AAP government, adjacent arsenic the AAP claimed recognition for its decisive enactment against its ain Minister successful the involvement of justice.
Leader of the Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa (Congress) said the AAP authorities had been forced to ascent down from the precocious equine it was riding and apprehension its ain erstwhile Minister pursuing sustained unit from the opposition.
CBI probe suggestion
Mr. Bajwa claimed that enactment against the erstwhile Minister came lone aft Union Home Minister Amit Shah indicated that a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) enquiry would beryllium ordered into the matter. He said Congress MPs — Charanjit Singh Channi, Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, Gurjeet Singh Aujla and Dr. Dharamvira Gandhi — forcefully raised the contented successful Parliament.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and leaders staged protests astatine respective territory office successful Punjab, demanding that the probe against Mr. Bhullar beryllium handed implicit to the CBI. BJP State president Sunil Jakhar alleged “The AAP authorities does not privation the lawsuit to spell to the CBI because, if that happens, respective layers involving AAP leaders, including those from Delhi, would beryllium exposed, and it would uncover wherever the wealth collected by ministers similar Mr. Bhullar was being sent.”
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) person Bikram Singh Majithia, meanwhile, demanded that the post-mortem of Randhawa should beryllium conducted astatine the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research oregon by a sheet of All India Institute of Medical Sciences doctors to guarantee just play.
AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal successful a station connected ‘X’, said “Recently, superior allegations were made against a Minister successful the AAP authorities successful Punjab. Our authorities took contiguous enactment against that Minister without immoderate hold oregon discrimination, not lone removing him from his presumption but besides getting him arrested.”
Hitting retired astatine the BJP, Mr. Kejriwal said that erstwhile it came to justice, the AAP did not hesitate to instrumentality enactment adjacent against a Minister successful its ain government, portion the BJP sacrificed justness itself to support its ain people.
The Punjab Police person booked Mr. Bhullar, his begetter Sukhdev Singh Bhullar, and idiosyncratic adjunct Dilbag Singh, nether Sections 108 (abatement of suicide), 351 (3) (criminal intimidation) and 3 (5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.
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