Badal arrested on graft charges

<div class="section1"><div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -2"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="37.5%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" fbfbfb=""> <div class="Normal"><script language="javascript" src="Config?Configid=43376741"></script><br /><img src="/photo/333233.cms" alt="/photo/333233.cms" border="0" /></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" fbfbfb=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:=""> Parkash Singh Badal</span> </div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">ROPAR: The judge of the special court in Ropar, S K Goyal on Monday afternoon sent former Punjab Chief Minister and President of Shiromani Akali Dal, Parkash Singh Badal and his son Sukhbir Badal, a Rajya Sabha MP, to judicial custody till December 13 in the disproportionate assets case filed against them by the Punjab vigilance bureau.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">The court had earlier in the day fixed December 3 for deciding the regular bail plea filed by Badal, upon which Badal’s counsel had moved the interim bail plea.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">The court also issued a fresh summons to Badal''s wife Surinder Kaur, who failed to appear in the court as she was stated to be indisposed, to appear before the court on December 13.</span><br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -6"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="25.8%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" color:="" ffffff="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript" src="Config?Configid=43376741"></script></span><br /><span style="" color:="" ffffff="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">RELATED STORIES</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" fbfbfb=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow?artid=331163" target="_blank">CM trying to cover up ''failure'': Badal</a><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/332379.cms" target="_blank">Harming Badal is attacking the panth: Tohra</a><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/331104.cms" target="_blank">Sec 144 in Ropar dist, Akalis arrested</a><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/329123.cms" target="_blank">A little help for the friends they need</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal"><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">On Monday morning, Badal, along with his son Sukhbir, appeared in the court of S K Goyal and moved an application for regular bail in the corruption case filed against them by the vigilance bureau.</span><br /><br /><span style="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">Badal was accompanied by S G P C president G S Tohra, former state finance minister Capt.Kanwaljit Singh, his counsel and former Advocate-General of Punjab H S Mattewal and a battery of lawyers.</span><br /><br /></div> </div><div class="section2"><div class="Normal"><br />The special court, after hearing the arguments on behalf of Badal and the counsel for Vigilance Bureau, Harbhajan Singh Sandhu, who pleaded for rejection of the bail plea, fixed the case for December 3.<br /><br />Upon this, however, the counsel for the Badals sought interim bail pending regular bail inter-alia arguing that the Badals have been cooperating all through in the case. The prosecution however objected to the interim bail plea, stating that when the decision on regular bail is pending, the court has no authority to grant interim bail. <br /><br />Meanwhile, the police resorted to lathi-charge at six places here to disperse the agitating Akali Dal workers outside the special court, which has been put under a heavy security ring. Over 200 policemen had been deployed in the court and outside.<br /></div> <div align="left" style="position:relative; left: -6"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="left" border="1" width="25.8%"> <colgroup> <col width="100.0%" /> </colgroup> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:=""> <div class="Normal"><span style="" color:="" ffffff="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold=""><script language="javascript" src="Config?Configid=43376741"></script></span><br /><span style="" color:="" ffffff="" font-size:="" font-weight:="" bold="">RELATED STORIES</span></div> </td> </tr> <tr valign="top"> <td width="100.0%" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="" valign:="" top="" background-color:="" fbfbfb=""> <div class="Normal"><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow?artid=331163" target="_blank">CM trying to cover up ''failure'': Badal</a><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/332379.cms" target="_blank">Harming Badal is attacking the panth: Tohra</a><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/331104.cms" target="_blank">Sec 144 in Ropar dist, Akalis arrested</a><br /><a href="http://www.thetimesofindia.online/articleshow/329123.cms" target="_blank">A little help for the friends they need</a></div> </td> </tr> </table></div> <div class="Normal">About a dozen persons sustained injuries while police took into custody former SGPC President Jagir Kaur along with 50-odd Akali Dal activists. The special court was put under heavy security ring and over 200 policemen have been deployed in and around the court. <br /><br />The injured, included senior Akali leaders Ajit Singh Kohar and Ranjit Singh Talwandi. Jitender Singh Randhawa from Jaiton, a leader of the Akali Dal’s youth wing, has been seriously hurt in the head and was bleeding profusely.</div> </div>