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After months of investigations, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau on Saturday filed a charge sheet against former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and his family in a disproportionate assets case in a Ropar court.
The charge sheet estimates the value of assets owned by Badal, his wife, son and close aides at Rs 4,326 crore.
It accuses the family of having "created assets" of Rs 78.39 crore during the tenure of the Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party government in 1997-2002.
Besides Badal, others named as accused in the charge sheet are his wife Surender Kaur; son and Rajya Sabha MP, Sukhbir Singh Badal; their NRI relative, Narrottam Singh Dhillon; Badal family's manager, Harbans Lal; and Jagnandan Singh, a close associate of the Badals.
A vigilance bureau team arrived in Ropar in the morning and filed the charge sheet in the court of District and Sessions
Judge Inderjeet Singh.
The bureau said it had intimated the speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly, of which the Akali Dal president is a member, about the filing of the charge sheet.