Chandigarh, June 29 -- Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday dared Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann to prove that Saraya Industries, in which party leader Bikram Singh Majithia had an inherited share of 11%, had received even one rupee in foreign funding from 2007. Lashing out at the state government over Majithia's arrest, the SAD chief said the case was registered only because Majithia had been "exposing" the dispensation over various issues.

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau arrested Majithia on June 25 in a disproportionate assets case allegedly involving laundering of Rs.540 crore "drug money". It was Sukhbir's maiden press conference after the arrest of Majithia. Regarding Saraya Industries Limited, he sa...