{"id":345818,"date":"2023-09-25T01:11:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T06:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=345818"},"modified":"2023-09-25T01:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T06:43:16","slug":"punjabs-ex-finance-minister-manpreet-badal-booked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjabs-ex-finance-minister-manpreet-badal-booked\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab\u2019s ex-Finance Minister Manpreet Badal booked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"740\" height=\"553\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Punjabs-ex-Finance-Minister-Manpreet-Badal-booked-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-345820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Punjabs-ex-Finance-Minister-Manpreet-Badal-booked-1.jpg 740w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Punjabs-ex-Finance-Minister-Manpreet-Badal-booked-1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Punjabs-ex-Finance-Minister-Manpreet-Badal-booked-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Punjabs-ex-Finance-Minister-Manpreet-Badal-booked-1-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Punjabs-ex-Finance-Minister-Manpreet-Badal-booked-1-696x520.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Punjabs-ex-Finance-Minister-Manpreet-Badal-booked-1-562x420.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has registered a case against former state finance minister and BJP leader Manpreet Singh Badal and five others on charges of irregularities in the purchase of a property in Bathinda, officials said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides Manpreet, a Congress turncoat, former Bathinda municipal corporation commissioner Bikramjit Shergill, Rajiv Kumar, Amandeep Singh, Vikas Arora and Pankaj were booked on Sunday night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rajiv Kumar and Amandeep Singh were arrested in the case, said the official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acting on the complaint of former MLA Sarup Chand Singla in 2021, the bureau started an investigation and booked them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manpreet has already moved an application in the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Ram Kumar Singla in Bathinda for his pre-arrest bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The court has listed the matter for hearing September 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has registered a case against former state finance minister and BJP leader Manpreet Singh Badal and five others on charges of irregularities in the purchase of a property in Bathinda, officials said on Monday. Besides Manpreet, a Congress turncoat, former Bathinda municipal corporation commissioner Bikramjit Shergill, Rajiv Kumar, Amandeep Singh, Vikas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":345819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15585,16188,17376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345818"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345822,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345818\/revisions\/345822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/345819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}