PATIALA: Punjab health minister
Brahm Mohindra on Friday appeared before a local court and gave his statement in regards with the defamation case that he had filed against
Lok Insaaf Party legislator
Simarjeet Singh Bains.
Later speaking to the media persons, the minister said he had deposed before the court and furnished preliminary evidence to support his claim that the statement given by SS Bains was defamatory in nature. The court has now fixed September 27 as the next date of hearing.
Earlier this month, the health minister had filed a criminal case for defamation case against LIP MLA Simarjeet Singh Bains, who had accused the minister of having links with a pharmaceutical company, which was supplying drugs to de-addiction centres in Punjab.
While filing the case in the court of JMIC
Nidhi Saini, Mohindra had stated that Bains had been leveling false and baseless accusations against him which were was quite defamatory. In June, this year, Bains had accused the health minister of using his position to benefit some pharmaceutical company in which he allegedly had a partnership. Bains had alleged that the minister was using his office to blackmail owners of de-addiction centres in the state to buy medicines from some particular company. After levelling the allegations, Bains had written a letter to chief minister
Capt Amarinder Singh demanding a CBI probe alleging that the minister was running a scam in the department. He had claimed that he had incriminating evidence against health minister which he would share with the investigators in case the probe is handed over to the CBI.
