Complaint against suspended AAP MP for sharing ‘objectionable video’ on WhatsApp

Ludhiana, September 16

A complaint has been filed with police against suspended AAP MP Harinder Singh Khalsa for allegedly uploading an “objectionable video” on a WhatsApp group through his official mobile number.

Khalsa, however, said he was in the UK when the video was posted on WhatsApp and his mobile phone was not with him at that time.

The complaint has been lodged with the Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Ludhiana range, Gursharan Singh Sandhu, by a social worker, Renu Sonia.

She said in her complaint that the video was uploaded in a WhatsApp group in which she was also a member.

She has sought action against the MP, said Satnam Singh Dhaliwal, president of the Universal Human Rights Organisation. Renu is a member the human rights body.

DIG Sandhu on Saturday said he had marked an inquiry in the case to Khanna SSP Navjot Singh Mahal.

Seventy-year-old Khalsa, MP from Fatehgarh Sahib, said he was in the UK when the alleged incident took place and the video might have got uploaded by a child. “I had left the mobile phone at my relative’s place where a child might have posted the video on the WhatsApp group,” he said. PTI