A case related to senior Punjab Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira is being heard in the Punjab and Haryana High Court today. Khaira is accused of threatening and pressuring to give false testimony in a case registered against him. For which he had challenged it in the High Court.
Police had arrested him in drug case
Let us tell you that in September 2023, Khukhpal Singh Khaira was arrested by the Jalalabad police in a case related to drug smuggling in 2015. He was arrested from his house in Chandigarh. At the same time, as soon as he got bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court in this case on January 4. After this, before he could come out of jail, another case was registered against him in Kapurthala.
After this, he was arrested again. In this case, he again got bail from the High Court. Khaira is one of the senior leaders from Congress. He is the MLA of Bhulath in Kapurthala. However, in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, he was fielded by the party from Sangrur. During this time he had to face defeat. At the same time, his family has been in politics from the beginning. His father has been the former Education Minister of Punjab.
Khaira's son had said this while going live
Khaira's son Advocate Mehtab Singh Khaira had posted a post while going live from his father's Facebook account. In this, he wrote that my father Sukhpal Singh Khaira has been arrested by the Punjab Police in an eight-year-old drugs case on the orders of the Chief Minister of Punjab. This is the same case which was rejected by the Supreme Court.
An application was filed regarding the threat of gangsters
Sukhpal Khaira had filed an application in the High Court saying that he is getting death threats from gangsters. He has been threatened with death by gangster Arsh Dalla, who is hiding in Canada. He has deposited his licensed weapon, but he is in danger of his life. In such a situation, keeping in view his self-protection, his weapon should be returned.