An area court docket on Friday adjourned to November 4 a legal grievance case by which former minister Navjot Singh Sidhu is a witness.

Earlier, the Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket had allowed Sidhu’s plea to seem within the case via video conferencing. The Ludhiana district court docket had been directing Sidhu to be bodily dropped at the court docket for a listening to and had twice dismissed his plea to seem via video conferencing following which he moved the excessive court docket.

Earlier in the course of the earlier listening to, Sidhu had cited poor well being situation and safety apprehensions and sought that he be allowed to depose earlier than the Ludhiana court docket via video conferencing. Sidhu had argued that it was troublesome for him to seem in court docket as a witness as a result of he had obtained many threats to his life and he had been supplied with Z+ safety.

The legal grievance case has been filed in opposition to former meals and civil provides minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu by suspended DSP (Ludhiana Municipal Corporation) Balwinder Singh Sekhon.

Sekhon has alleged that Ashu referred to as and threatened him whereas he was within the strategy of conducting an inquiry within the Grand Manor Homes CLU case.

Sidhu was the then native our bodies minister and thus has been made a witness within the grievance case. Sidhu had pleaded that he can’t be summoned as a witness within the case.

On the opposite hand, the suspended DSP had pleaded within the court docket that Sidhu needs to be summoned as a witness within the case as a result of it was throughout his (Sidhu’s) tenure as native our bodies minister in 2019 that Ashu’s title had prominently figured within the probe report of CLU rip-off which was ready by the officer and the case file was submitted in Sidhu’s workplace which is now reportedly “missing”. The DSP had alleged that in the course of the inquiry, Ashu telephoned him and issued a number of threats and tried to derail the inquiry utilizing his political affect.