Ropar, Nov 22: A local court today issued summons to former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and three others for December one following the filing of chargesheet against them in the disproportionate assets case.

Special Judge S K Goyal issued the summons this afternoon after the 86-page chargesheet filed by Punjab Vigilance Bureau in the court of District and Sessions Judge Inderjeet Singh was referred to him for further action.
Summons have been issued to Parkash Singh Badal, his wife Surender Kaur, son Sukhbir and their NRI relative Narrottam Singh Dhillon.
The two other accused named in the chargesheet, Harbans Lal, a manager of Badal family and Jagnandan Singh, their associate, are already in judicial custody, which also ends on December one.
The chargesheet filed after months of investigations following a complaint of one Balwant Singh, a resident of Dhalewan village of Mansa district, said investigations disclosed that alleged disproportionate assets worth Rs 78.39 crore were secured during the five year tenure of the SAD-BJP alliance government headed by Badal.
They have been accused of "illegally accumulating assets massively disproportionate to their collective known sources of income" and charged under various sections of IPC including fraud, forgery, conspiracy, tampering with documents and under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
Bureau Report