AMRITSAR, June 4 -- A local court on Wednesday directed the Punjab Police to furnish a copy of the FIR registered against the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia within 24 hours.

According to the Amritsar Rural police, Majithia and around 50-60 others "stormed the police station on Sunday, went around searching its rooms and damaged case files to forcibly try to free a detained party worker from police custody." Akali Dal, however, alleged the man who was arrested was a party polling agent in the recent civic body polls, and he was kept at an SHO's quarters instead of a police lock-up. This was a "fabricated" case, it alleged.

Since Monday, police teams have been conducting raids at Majithia's suspected hideouts, incl...