A day after Shiromani Akali Dal chief Bikram Majithia performed video clips of a purported WhatsApp dialog between two people allegedly negotiating a deal to facilitate the discharge of social media influencer and rape accused Gurinder Singh alias Guri Chahal, the person in query, recognized as Simranjit Singh Hundal, has distanced himself from the controversy.
Hundal is a Mohali-based social media influencer and a property supplier.
In accordance with Majithia, Hundal was allegedly negotiating a cope with an alleged relative of Dr Gurpreet Kaur, spouse of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, to settle a rape case.
Hundal has claimed that he has neither met Dr Gurpreet Kaur nor ever provided a bribe in reference to any case.
The purported WhatsApp dialog has triggered a political storm within the state, with opposition events concentrating on the AAP authorities.
Hundal mentioned politicians have been free to interact in “low cost politics”, however ought to chorus from dragging his identify into the controversy, failing which he would take authorized recourse.
The event got here hours earlier than a delegation of SAD leaders, together with social gathering president Sukhbir Badal, Bikram Majithia, Mahesh Inder Singh Grewal, Daljit Cheema and Sikandar Maluka, was scheduled to satisfy Governor Gulab Chand Kataria at Lok Bhawan, Chandigarh, demanding a high-level CBI inquiry into allegations of large-scale corruption within the Chief Minister’s Workplace.
The Nationwide Human Rights Fee had additionally stepped into the controversy, issuing notices to the Punjab Chief Secretary and Director Normal of Police over a grievance regarding the alleged Rs 5 crore demand to suppress the rape case.
Majithia, whereas sharing the purported clips, demanded a CBI probe.
Throughout a press convention, Majithia claimed that the person heard within the dialog with a conduit was Hundal and that the conduit, who allegedly sought a Rs 5 crore bribe to settle the matter involving the rape case and different police complaints, was associated to the CM’s spouse.
The AAP denied the allegations. AAP chief Kuldeep Dhaliwal mentioned the SAD was stooping to “petty politics” and concocting tales. He demanded proof to substantiate the allegations.
Beneath is Hundal’s video:
