<p>Patiala: Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia appeared before a Punjab Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) here on Saturday in connection with a drugs case, official sources said.</p>.<p>Speaking to reporters before entering the SIT office, Majithia said the case against him is 'politically motivated'.</p>.<p>This was Majithia's second appearance before the SIT this month. He had earlier appeared before the SIT on December 18 and was questioned for more than seven hours.</p>.Drug menace spreading tentacles in Haryana, Khattar govt sleeping: Cong's Surjewala.<p>The SIT is led by Additional Director General of Police (Patiala range) Mukhwinder Singh Chhina.</p>.<p>Majithia said the case against him is 'politically motivated'.</p>.<p>He said SIT head Chhina will be retiring from the post on Sunday and asked Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann not to use his officers to 'target' the Akali leader.</p>.<p>"If you have the guts, you should become the chairman of the SIT," Majithia told Mann.</p>.<p>Majithia was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on December 20, 2021, when the then chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government was in power.</p>.<p>The action was taken on the basis of a 2018 report of the anti-drug Special Task Force. The FIR was registered by the state Crime Branch at its Mohali police station.</p>.<p>Majithia spent more than five months in Patiala jail and walked out of prison in August 2022 after the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted him bail. </p>
<p>Patiala: Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia appeared before a Punjab Police Special Investigation Team (SIT) here on Saturday in connection with a drugs case, official sources said.</p>.<p>Speaking to reporters before entering the SIT office, Majithia said the case against him is 'politically motivated'.</p>.<p>This was Majithia's second appearance before the SIT this month. He had earlier appeared before the SIT on December 18 and was questioned for more than seven hours.</p>.Drug menace spreading tentacles in Haryana, Khattar govt sleeping: Cong's Surjewala.<p>The SIT is led by Additional Director General of Police (Patiala range) Mukhwinder Singh Chhina.</p>.<p>Majithia said the case against him is 'politically motivated'.</p>.<p>He said SIT head Chhina will be retiring from the post on Sunday and asked Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann not to use his officers to 'target' the Akali leader.</p>.<p>"If you have the guts, you should become the chairman of the SIT," Majithia told Mann.</p>.<p>Majithia was booked under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act on December 20, 2021, when the then chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi-led Congress government was in power.</p>.<p>The action was taken on the basis of a 2018 report of the anti-drug Special Task Force. The FIR was registered by the state Crime Branch at its Mohali police station.</p>.<p>Majithia spent more than five months in Patiala jail and walked out of prison in August 2022 after the Punjab and Haryana High Court granted him bail. </p>