A court docket in Kapurthala granted bail to Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira on Monday. Khiara had been arrested in a criminal intimidation case. Khaira’s lawyer Kanwaljeet Singh stated, “Sukhpal Singh Khaira has been granted bail today. Efforts will be made to release him from jail today. He is lodged in Nabha jail.”
Earlier, his son Mehtab Singh Khaira alleged {that a} new case was registered in opposition to his father in town and additional motion has been initiated in opposition to him on the cost of threatening the witnesses.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on January 4 granted him bail in a case registered underneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Arms Act. However, earlier than he could possibly be launched from jail, the Punjab police arrested him in a recent case.
Punjab Police had initially arrested Khaira from his Chandigarh residence in September final yr in reference to an eight-year-old case registered underneath the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
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