Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) General Secretary Bikram Singh Majithia was on Monday booked in a drugs case, months before the Punjab Assembly elections.

The Punjab Bureau of Investigation at the State Special Operations Cell Police Station in Mohali registered the case under sections of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.

Majithia, who is the brother-in-law of Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, is a prominent face of the party. He is the brother of former Punjab Cabinet minister and party leader Harsimrat Kaur Badal.