Reportedly punjab congress mla Sukhpal Singh Khehra was granted bail by the Kapurthala court on Monday. court grants bail to congress mla in criminal intimidation case. Sukhpal Singh Khehra's lawyer Kanwaljit Singh said that he got bail on Monday. Efforts will be made to release him from jail today itself. He is lodged in Nabha jail. punjab Congress' firebrand mla Sukhpal Singh Khehra was arrested from his chandigarh home last year in a drugs case. Khehra was arrested by the police in the drug smuggling case of 2015. Earlier in march 2021 also, ED had searched eight places linked to Khehra in chandigarh, punjab and delhi in the drugs money laundering and fake passport racket case.
Perhaps Sukhpal Singh Khehra is a congress mla from Bhulath seat of Punjab. He was born in january 1965 and his father Sukhjinder Singh Khehra was a veteran leader of Akali Dal. Khehra studied at Bishop Cotton School, shimla and completed his 12th standard from DAV College, Chandigarh. Sukhpal Singh Khehra has become mla twice on congress ticket and once on AAP ticket. Sukhpal Singh Khehra is also the President of Bharatiya Kisan Congress. Sukhpal Singh Khehra's father has been the education Minister of Punjab.
In the year 2014, Sukhpal Singh Khehra resigned from congress and joined Aam Aadmi Party. In the year 2017, he contested the elections on AAP ticket and won. During that time, congress was in power in punjab and Khehra was the leader of the opposition. However, in 2018, he was suspended from AAP due to anti-party activities and once again returned to Congress.
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