Punjab Vigilance Bureau detains Harpreet Gulati in Majithia-linked liquor scam case involving alleged illegal fund transfers. Investigation expands.

In a money transfer case involving the liquor companies Akash Spriti, UV Enterprises, and AD Enterprises, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau detained Majithia’s close aide Harpreet Singh Gulati. As a result, former minister Bikram Singh Majithia used Gulati to construct houses in Delhi and Shimla. In relation to the Majithia case, accused Harpreet Singh Gulati was taken into custody in Mohali and placed under police detention for six days by a Mohali court.

Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia is facing serious accusations of quid-pro-quo liquor licenses and questionable finance flows from favored liquor businesses into his enterprises and family, according to an official Vigilance Bureau spokesperson.

He claimed that since the Akali administration took over Punjab in 2007, political interests have allegedly taken control of the liquor industry and other sectors.Majithia is accused of having a connection to Harpreet Singh Gulati, a former auto dealer who is now a liquor entrepreneur and who profited from this influence.

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He disclosed that Gulati’s companies allegedly obtained liquor licenses at Majithia’s request starting in 2008, establishing a presence in the regulated industry and giving rise to allegations of official abuse. In order to finance Sainik Farms, a farmhouse in Delhi, and family perks, Gulati’s companies allegedly paid Majithia’s companies and family Rs. 4.25 crore in 2008–09 and Rs. 1.40 crore in 2009–10.Another Rs. 5.49 crore went in the same direction in 2014–15 to pay back debts for group companies connected to Majithia.

Up to now, transactions totaling about Rs. 10,000,000,000 have been found to be injected into the businesses associated with the accused Bikram Singh Majithia. Additional research is revealing more capital infusions totaling crores. The investigation also found that these transactions were non-commercial in character, unconnected to any legal business operations, and conducted through layered advances or unsecured fund transfers with no business logic or rationale, he continued.