Former Punjab transport minister Laljit Singh Bhullar was arrested from Mandi Gobindgarh in Fatehgarh Sahib district on Monday afternoon in connection with a suicide abetment case of a warehouse corporation officer, a senior police officer confirmed to HT.. Former transport minister and Patti AAP MLA Laljit Singh Bhullar, who has been booked for abetment of suicide was arrested on Monady. (File photo). State minister Bhullar resigned on Saturday following allegations that he had harassed Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, district manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation in Amritsar. Randhawa died allegedly by consuming poison earlier that day.. The arrest came barely two hours after Gurjeet Singh Aujla, a Congress MP from Amritsar, raised the issue in parliament, prompting a reply from Union home minister, Amit Shah. He was about to leave the lower house when Aujla requested him to listen to what he had to say. To which Shah replied that if all the Punjab MPs together submit a written request, he will immediately order a CBI inquiry.. In a Facebook post before the arrest, BHullar claimed that he has complete faith in the judiciary and, hence, has “surrendered”.. “Every decision in my life has been guided by their welfare and by the path of truth. But today, the rumours being spread—that I have absconded—are not true. I have never been someone who runs away from the truth,” said Bhullar.. “I have complete faith in the law of the country and unwavering trust in the justice system. I have not run anywhere; I am here in my Punjab. With faith in truth and justice, I am voluntarily surrendering myself in Mandi Gobindgarh,” he added.
