ED chargesheets Avinash, Phillaur

Jalandhar/Mohali : The Enforcement Directorate today submitted its fifth chargesheet naming 12 persons, including former Akali minister Sarwan Singh Phillaur, his son Damanvir Phillaur and former Akali CPS Avinash Chander, in the Bhola drug case. The 211-page charge sheet was submitted by ED’s special public prosecutor Jagjit Singh Sarao, who was accompanied by the ED Deputy Director Niranjan Singh, in the special court under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act in Mohali today. Among others who have been named in the charges heet are Amritsar-based businessman Jagjit Singh Chahal, who had been arrested and taken into remand by the ED officials in May for two days after laying a trap in Mohali, Chahal’s brother Paramjit Singh Chahal and his wife Inderjit Kaur. While Jagjit Chahal is currently lodged in Central Jail, Patiala, his brother has been held in New Jail Nabha. Bhiwani-based four family members — Sushil Kumar Sardana, his wife Kailash Sardana, son Sachin Sardana and daughter-in-law Rashmi Sardana — too have been named. Sardanas run a pharma company in Delhi. The remaining two who have been chargesheeted are Una-based Devinder Kant Sharma and Shahkot-based Canadian NRI Jaswinder Singh.