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While the Union Government is trying its best to bring back black money stashed in foreign countries, national capital Delhi is fast becoming the 'ADDA' of hawala rackets and black money. The Enforcement Directorate has busted a narcotics money laundering network through hawala. As per the ED probe, over Rs 1,500 crore was sent to drugs syndicates in countries like Colombia, Mexico, Hong Kong and Australia through hawala in the last two years.

 
ED set to summon Bikram Singh Majithia, has 50 questions ready
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has a list of questions ready for Punjab revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia, who would be summoned “within a short period” in a case of money laundering, as part of an ongoing probe into the multi-crore drug racket case that has rocked Punjab and the SAD-BJP regime over the past few months, it is learnt.

Documents accessed by HT show that ED has completed all formalities and, on Monday, the central agency also finalised the questionnaire that would be put before the firebrand minister of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). The 25-page document simply entitled ‘Questionnaire for Bikram Singh Majithia’ contains more than 50 questions pertaining to personal and business details.


The drug racket had been busted last year with the arrest of former policeman Jagdish Singh Bhola, and he too had named Majithia.
Now, according to well-placed sources, the ED’s move to summon Majithia — brother of Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal, the wife of CM Parkash Singh Badal’s son and deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal — has been initiated after a nod from the “high-ups in Delhi” in view of political sensitivity of the case. ED officials, however, made it clear that mere summoning did not vindicate involvement in the case.

Incidentally, the fresh development on the drug mafia issue comes at a time when the Punjab BJP, taking a high moral ground with a ‘drug-free Punjab’ slogan, has adopted a tough stand on the issue — widely seen as a part of its shrewd strategy to deflect the public anger on partner SAD. The saffron party has, in fact, been shrill in demanding resignation of Akali legislator and chief parliamentary secretary Avinash Chander who was summoned by the ED in the drug case earlier.

The ED is under the Union finance ministry headed by BJP’s Arun Jaitley, who had unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls from Amritsar after reported assurances from the SAD that it was a “safe seat”.

ROOTS IN 2007, NRI LINKS

A major portion of the questionnaire that HT managed to see focuses on seeking details about assets and business activities of Majithia and his family since 2007, when the SAD-BJP alliance had come to power after five years of Congress rule.

He has also been asked for details of his relationship with Satpreet Singh alias Satta, Amarinder Singh alias Laddi and Parminder Singh alias Pindi — Canada-based NRIs whom Bhola in his statement has listed as ‘close associates’ of Majithia. These three have already been booked by the ED.

“Since Bhola’s involvement in the synthetic drug case has its roots in 2007, investigation of the wealth and activities of all accused is the most important aspect in the probe,” sources in the ED said. Officials further said the questionnaire might be sent to the national headquarters of the agency in Delhi for final approval, but declined to give a date, saying that “things would be before all of us shortly”.

Most questions on the first three pages of the questionnaire are about Majithia and his family’s bank accounts, business ventures, moveable and immovable properties. It also seeks copies of Majithia and his and wife’s passports.

On Monday, reacting to the news report ‘ED ready with evidence to summon Majithia but dragging its feet’ that appeared in HT on Monday, the minister had said the statements made by the accused carried no evidence and were “mere conjecture”.

ED’s questions for Majithia

The 25-page questionnaire prepared by the ED for Punjab revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia has 50 questions. From the parts accessed by HT, here are some pertinent details sought:

*Property and business ventures since 2007

*Details of properties owned in different states and overseas, by the minister and his family

*Business and personal links with another prime accused, Bittu Aulakh

*Details of stay of drug-racket accused NRIs — with Satpreet Singh alias Satta, Amarinder Singh alias Laddi and Parminder Singh alias Pindi, alleged to be Majithia’s close associates — at his official residence in Chandigarh and the house in Amritsar

*Details of foreign travels and meetings with Satta and Pindi

*Answer on Satta’s involvement as his election agent in 2007 assembly polls.

ED set to summon Bikram Singh Majithia, has 50 questions ready - Hindustan Times

 
A good friend from Haryana told me that most of the youth in Punjab/Haryana area is addicted to drugs, along with Delhites. Most of the 'charas' comes from Pakistan/Afghanistan.
 
A good friend from Haryana told me that most of the youth in Punjab/Haryana area is addicted to drugs, along with Delhites. Most of the 'charas' comes from Pakistan/Afghanistan.
Just like how your 'good friend from Gujarat' told you how the Gujarat Police watched silently and even boasted about not having orders to save Muslims? You have some really wide variety of friends - must be a jolly friendly person in real life. :)
 
Just like how your 'good friend from Gujarat' told you how the Gujarat Police watched silently and even boasted about not having orders to save Muslims? You have some really wide variety of friends - must be a jolly friendly person in real life. :)

Yup, an online Indian blaming another Indian. I guess that's how India works.
If we met in real life, i would be more than happy to make you converse with them. They were some very well headed people. I lived with them for 4 years. I would take their word about actual life in India, than a random Indian schmuck on PDF.

Sorry, that's how it is. Experience beats internet every time.

Maybe you should get out of India for a while as well, so you may know how the world actually works.
 
Yup, an online Indian blaming another Indian. I guess that's how India works.
If we met in real life, i would be more than happy to make you converse with them. They were some very well headed people. I lived with them for 4 years. I would take their word about actual life in India, than a random Indian schmuck on PDF.

Sorry, that's how it is. Experience beats internet every time.

Maybe you should get out of India for a while as well, so you may know how the world actually works.
No, I certainly agree with you. I have always maintained that we are an evil nation. Please don't get me wrong there. :disagree: You don't know how better off you are in Pakistan (if you are). Starting from health to law and order, finances to justice - there is no comparison. Thanks. :agree:

We Indians are not capable to have such friends anywhere int he world. Especially with points of view that resonate with mine.
 
No, I certainly agree with you. I have always maintained that we are an evil nation. Please don't get me wrong there. :disagree: You don't know how better off you are in Pakistan (if you are). Starting from health to law and order, finances to justice - there is no comparison. Thanks. :agree:

We Indians are not capable to have such friends anywhere int he world. Especially with points of view that resonate with mine.

I left my country for education and above all, to meet people from all over the world.

It has got nothing to do with India vs Pakistan. I'll believe what i converse in, with real life experience.

Sorry if that is too bitter for you.
 
No, I certainly agree with you. I have always maintained that we are an evil nation. Please don't get me wrong there. :disagree: You don't know how better off you are in Pakistan (if you are). Starting from health to law and order, finances to justice - there is no comparison. Thanks. :agree:

We Indians are not capable to have such friends anywhere int he world. Especially with points of view that resonate with mine.

So again, tell me where are all the drugs coming from in India?
 
I left my country for education and above all, to meet people from all over the world.

It has got nothing to do with India vs Pakistan. I'll believe what i converse in, with real life experience.

Sorry if that is too bitter for you.

So again, tell me where are all the drugs coming from in India?
Dadaji, I fail to see the relevance of the two posts. :( First, I am not bitter. Secondly, I am not into drugs, never have been...so not sure. :unsure:

And I don't deny India is worse in all respects. There should be no difference of opinion here. :)
 
So again, tell me where are all the drugs coming from in India?
I Agree most of the drugs in Punjab (India) comes from Pakistan/Afghanistan and some from other countries like columbia as mentioned in news. But now some percentage of drug addicts of north India are shifting to locally made medical & synthetic drugs. For example one of the famous drug in punjab is ice or chitta (white). Smugglers make "ice drug" by mixing pseudoephedrine with phenylpropanolamine and ephedrine.Some of these chemicals are used to smuggled from US & Canada. “Ice”, normally a party drug, was introduced to addicts in Punjab in 2009. Apart from that cough syrups are also famous in Punjab.
 
I Agree most of the drugs in Punjab (India) comes from Pakistan/Afghanistan and some from other countries like columbia as mentioned in news. But now some percentage of drug addicts of north India are shifting to locally made medical & synthetic drugs. For example one of the famous drug in punjab is ice or chitta (white). Smugglers make "ice drug" by mixing pseudoephedrine with phenylpropanolamine and ephedrine.Some of these chemicals are used to smuggled from US & Canada. “Ice”, normally a party drug, was introduced to addicts in Punjab in 2009. Apart from that cough syrups are also famous in Punjab.

I think there was a report presented by an Indian news outlet that 80% of the youth in that region is on some form of drugs/illicit substances.

Another report says 73.5% Punjab youth drug addicts - The Times of India

Columbia? Well, that is a long way. I wonder how they smuggle through with customs/BSF on the borders.
 
I think there was a report presented by an Indian news outlet that 80% of the youth in that region is on some form of drugs/illicit substances.

Another report says 73.5% Punjab youth drug addicts - The Times of India

Columbia? Well, that is a long way. I wonder how they smuggle through with customs/BSF on the borders.
Unfortunately yes more than 70% youth in punjab are victims of drug abuse. Even home delivery of drugs is available in every remote corner of state. According to a report in The Tribune A 17-year-old truck driver from Ambala admitted that he used to sell heroin for Rs 800 a gram. Girls would come with their boyfriends from universities and institutes of Chandigarh to collect their ‘source of happiness’. He used to make Rs 15,000 after investing Rs 5,000 the same day.I don't know much about columbia but chemicals from US & Canada were imported by making fake pharma companies.
 
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The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
 
Damn, drugs are a big problem in Pakistan as well, didn't know that so many Indians were into them as well.
 
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