BATHINDA: Punjab vigilance bureau has issued Lookout Circular (LOC) against Punjab’s former finance minister and BJP chief Manpreet Singh Badal in a case registered against him below prevention of corruption and varied different expenses.
The airports have been alerted to cease Manpreet from leaving the nation.
Manpreet has been accused of inflicting lack of Rs 65 lakh to state exchequer in buy of two plots measuring 1,560 sq. yards through the use of his clout on officers of Bathinda Municipal Corporation in September 2021 when he was finance minister in Punjab.
A workforce of vigilance bureau visited his residence at village Badal in district Muktsar on Monday night. As Manpreet was not obtainable, LOC has been issued against him.
Meanwhile, a courtroom in Bathinda is anticipated to take up the anticipatory bail utility filed by Manpreet on September 22. He had alleged that motion against him is politically motivated as chief minister Bhagwant Mann would not like him.
The airports have been alerted to cease Manpreet from leaving the nation.
Manpreet has been accused of inflicting lack of Rs 65 lakh to state exchequer in buy of two plots measuring 1,560 sq. yards through the use of his clout on officers of Bathinda Municipal Corporation in September 2021 when he was finance minister in Punjab.
A workforce of vigilance bureau visited his residence at village Badal in district Muktsar on Monday night. As Manpreet was not obtainable, LOC has been issued against him.
Meanwhile, a courtroom in Bathinda is anticipated to take up the anticipatory bail utility filed by Manpreet on September 22. He had alleged that motion against him is politically motivated as chief minister Bhagwant Mann would not like him.
