Patiala: A Patiala courtroom has initiated proceedings to declare Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) president and former MLA Simarjeet Singh Bains a proclaimed offender (PO) in a defamation case.

Bains has failed to seem earlier than the courtroom at the same time as non-bailable warrants had been issued towards him repeatedly in a case filed by former cupboard minister Brahm Mohindra.

The courtroom of judicial Justice of the Peace Monica Sharma has additionally requested Preetinder Singh, who has furnished surety of Bains for bail, to deposit 30,000 within the courtroom, as he failed to make sure presence of the accused within the case.

Bains has already been declared a proclaimed offender in an alleged rape case. The PO declaration order was issued by a Ludhiana courtroom on April 12, whereas the alleged rape case was registered in July 2021. Last week, the Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom dismissed Bains’ plea searching for to quash order of PO towards him within the rape case and likewise rejected his anticipatory bail plea.

The defamation case was filed by Mohindra towards Bains on August 1, 2018. After recording Mohindra’s assertion, the courtroom of judicial Justice of the Peace had issued summons to Bains.

During a press convention in 2018, Bains had accused Mohindra, then the state well being minister, of a rip-off within the buy of medicines. Bains additionally claimed that Mohindra owned a pharmaceutical firm.

In July 2018, Bains wrote to then Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh after which Congress president Rahul Gandhi demanding Mohindra’s elimination from the state cupboard and a CBI probe towards him. Bains had alleged that Mohindra was urgent drug de-addiction facilities to buy a specific medication at exorbitant charges. He had additionally alleged that phrases and circumstances of tenders had been tweaked to learn some multinationals. Mohindra had denied the costs.

Since the submitting the case towards Bains underneath Sections 499 and 500 of the IPC, Mohindra has deposed numerous occasions earlier than the courtroom to report his assertion to provoke courtroom proceedings, however the LIP chief failed to seem.