{"id":56289,"date":"2025-11-30T22:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=56289"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:08:56","slug":"vigilance-bureau-arrests-majithias-close-aide-harpreet-singh-gulati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/vigilance-bureau-arrests-majithias-close-aide-harpreet-singh-gulati\/","title":{"rendered":"Vigilance Bureau arrests Majithia&#8217;s close aide Harpreet Singh Gulati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Former minister build properties in Shimla and Delhi through Gulati<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Punjab News:\u00a0<\/span> Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested Majithia&#8217;s close aide Harpreet Singh Gulati in a money transfer case through liquor company Akash Spriti, UV Enterprises, AD Enterprises, thereby former minister Bikram Singh Majithia built properties in Shimla and Delhi through Gulati. Accused Harpreet Singh Gulati has been arrested from Mohali in connection with the Majithia case and a Mohali court has sent him six days police remand.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosing this an official spokesperson of Vigilance Bureau said that Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia faces serious allegations of quid-pro-quo liquor licences and suspicious fund flows from favoured liquor businessmen into his companies and family.<\/p>\n<p>He said that since the Akali government\u2019s 2007 takeover in Punjab, liquor sector, etc allegedly faced capture by political interests. \u2028A nexus is alleged between Majithia and car dealer-turned-liquor businessman Harpreet Singh Gulati, who benefited from this influence.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that Gulati\u2019s firms allegedly secured liquor licences at Majithia\u2019s instance from 2008, gaining a foothold in the regulated trade and raising abuse of office concerns. Gulati\u2019s firms allegedly paid Rs.4.25 crore (2008-09) and Rs. 1.40 crore (2009-10) to Majithia\u2019s companies and family, funding a Sainik Farms, a farmhouse in Delhi and family benefits. \u2028In 2014-15, another Rs. 5.49 crore flowed in the same way, repaying loans for Majithia-linked group entities.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Till now, transactions of approximately Rs.10,00,00,000\/- being pumped into the companies linked to the accused Bikram Singh Majithia have surfaced, and further investigation is indicating more such fund infusions running into crores. The probe has further revealed that these transactions were non-commercial in nature, unrelated to any legitimate business dealings, and routed in the form of unsecured fund transfers\/layered advances, without any business rationale, justification\u2019, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former minister build properties in Shimla and Delhi through Gulati Punjab News:\u00a0 Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested Majithia&#8217;s close aide Harpreet Singh Gulati in a money transfer case through liquor company Akash Spriti, UV Enterprises, AD Enterprises, thereby former minister Bikram Singh Majithia built properties in Shimla and Delhi through Gulati. Accused Harpreet Singh Gulati has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,20],"tags":[11730,11728,11726,11731,11727,11733,11732,11729],"class_list":["post-56289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-latest","category-punjab","tag-ad-enterprises-punjab","tag-akash-spriti-liquor-company","tag-harpreet-singh-gulati-arrest","tag-liquor-licence-scam-punjab","tag-majithia-money-transfer-case","tag-quid-pro-quo-liquor-licences","tag-shimla-delhi-property-case","tag-uv-enterprises-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Vigilance Bureau arrests Majithia&#039;s close aide Harpreet Singh Gulati - PunjabENews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/punjab\/vigilance-bureau-arrests-majithias-close-aide-harpreet-singh-gulati\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vigilance Bureau arrests Majithia&#039;s close aide Harpreet Singh Gulati - PunjabENews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former minister build properties in Shimla and Delhi through Gulati Punjab News:\u00a0 Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested Majithia&#8217;s close aide Harpreet Singh Gulati in a money transfer case through liquor company Akash Spriti, UV Enterprises, AD Enterprises, thereby former minister Bikram Singh Majithia built properties in Shimla and Delhi through Gulati. 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