A local court on Wednesday, 31 August, sent former minister and Congress leader Bharat Bhushan Ashu to judicial remand for two weeks in connection with alleged irregularities in food grain transportation tenders.
Ashu was produced before Chief Judicial Magistrate Sumit Makkar who sent the Congress leader to jail.
Earlier, the court had remanded the former minister in the custody of the vigilance bureau till 27 August. It had extended his remand on Saturday and then again on Monday for two more days.
The defence counsel had termed the whole case as “false and frivolous”.
They had said that it was a clear case of “political vendetta and rivalry only to placate some political bosses.”
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau had on 22 August arrested Ashu, a former food and supply minister in the previous Congress government.
Ashu, who is the Congress' state unit working president, was arrested in Ludhiana by the state vigilance bureau in a scam related to the allotment of transportation tenders on fake registration numbers of vehicles during the previous Congress regime.
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