Senior SAD leader and former SGPC president Bibi Jagir Kaur on Sunday called for an “immediate inquiry into the rags to riches story of former Congress MlA Sukhpal Khaira”. “Enforcement Directorate should investigate how Khaira is directly and indirectly facilitating drug trafficking,” she said while releasing video footages of Khaira being showered with currency notes at a function organised by his close confidant Gurdev Singh Debi, who is now under arrest for drug trafficking, at lakhan ka Padda village in Bholath.
Bibi Jagir Kaur, also Bholath MlA, said that Khaira’s true character and the patronage extended by him to drug lords could be ascertained from the footage. Besides Gurdev Debi, who was arrested recently on drug charges, Bibi Jagir Kaur also released footage of former Congress MlA in the company of proclaimed drug offender Dara Mathada.
“Mathada, who is a close confidant of Khaira, is wanted in multi-crore drug trafficking case after he has been named as a trafficker by prime accused Anup Kahlon. Dara is presently in Canada which country Khaira had also visited last year,” she pointed.
She said that there was a need to investigate how Khaira had accumulated huge wealth. “It is surprising that a person who had only 17 acres of land, had built a Rs five crore worth house in his native village Ramgarh besides a Rs 40 crore house in Chandigarh. This, despite the fact that he had to marry off seven sisters,” she said.
“Khaira also possesses a battery of luxury vehicles and portrays himself as an aristocrat despite the fact that he does not have any business or industry in his name. How has he accumulated such wealthIJ It is a fit case for the ED to investigate,” she added.
She demanded an “immediate investigation into Khaira's ill-gotten wealth, an inquiry into his deep relations with drug dealers, land sharks and property agents in the Doaba belt and an immediate crackdown on the Khaira gang in Bholath constituency