Rape case: Punjab AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra arrested; opens hearth, drives SUV at cops, flees | Chandigarh News

Harmeet Singh Pathan Majra (File Photo)

PATIALA: AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra has allegedly escaped police custody whereas being taken to an area police station after his arrest. According to Punjab Police sources, Pathanmajra and his accomplices fired at cops through the escape and even ran over one personnel, leaving him injured. According to reviews, Pathanmajra and his accomplices ran over police personnel with an SUV.

The Sanour MLA was arrested a day after publicly criticising his occasion’s Delhi management.His detention in Patiala was linked to a rape case filed towards him, sparking political uproar within the area. In a social media put up, Pathanmajra claimed the case associated to his former spouse and alleged that the contemporary expenses of rape had been politically motivated. “I was booked because I raised my voice against my own government, especially the Delhi leadership,” he wrote. His brother, Hardev Singh, mentioned the MLA was taken into custody beneath Section 376 of the IPC regardless of already having been granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court. “He was arrested from Dabri in Haryana in a case where bail was already granted. This is clearly an attempt to silence him,” he alleged. Before his arrest, Pathanmajra had appealed to colleagues and supporters by way of Facebook to protest exterior the Patiala SSP’s workplace at the Mini Secretariat. He urged folks to succeed in “in tractors, trolleys, and cars” to demand his launch. “I will not be silenced even if more cases are registered against me. Will AAP’s Delhi leadership rule Punjabis now? Even Congress and BJP did not interfere to this extent,” he mentioned. The MLA has repeatedly accused the occasion’s central management of sidelining Punjab leaders and “remote-controlling” the state. Recently, he criticised officers of the Irrigation Department over flood reduction efforts in his constituency. Soon after, his safety cowl was withdrawn and cops within the space had been reshuffled — strikes that raised eyebrows. “This is retaliation. They looted Punjab more than Abdali. Now they want to sell Punjab,” Pathanmajra declared. His arrest has highlighted rising tensions inside AAP’s Punjab unit. In latest months, a number of MLAs have spoken towards the occasion’s decision-making construction, with some dealing with disciplinary motion or expulsion. With protests now referred to as in Patiala, the controversy seems set to escalate, drawing consideration not solely to the authorized case towards Pathanmajra but additionally to wider questions of governance, occasion unity and centralisation of energy inside AAP.