Mohali, March 20 -- A special court in Mohali framed charges against Congress leader and former state forest minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot in connection with a PMLA case on Wednesday.

The court of Ajit Atri said that "prima facie offence under Section 3, punishable under Section 4 of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, was made out against the accused and he is ordered to be charged for the offence".

This means that Dharamsot, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on January 15 last year from Jalandhar, will now face trial. The ED had alleged that Dharamsot diverted funds worth crores during his tenure as forest minister during Congress regime from 2017 to 2022.

Dharamsot, who held the forest department...