Chandigarh: Now, AAP Punjab minister Aman Arora, MLA Sarabjit Kaur Manuke seek anticipatory bail

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Chandigarh, July 18

Claiming that the police had registered the FIR out of political vendetta, the AAP leader and Minister for Information and Public Relations, Punjab, Aman Arora; and MLA Sarabjit Kaur Manuke have applied for anticipatory bail through counsel Harinder Kumar and Davinder Kumar in a two-year-old case.

The Chandigarh Police had registered the case against 10 AAP leaders, including Bhagwant Mann (Punjab Chief Minister), Harpal Singh Cheema and Aman Arora, for allegedly pelting the police with stones during a demonstration held opposite the MLA hostel on January 10, 2020.

The police alleged that the AAP workers, instigated by the leaders, pelted the cops with stones when they were stopped near the MLA hostel. The leaders were marching towards the official residence of the Punjab Chief Minister when they were stopped due to the imposition of Section 144 in the area. The case was registered on a statement of a woman constable. The police used water cannons to disperse the workers but they started pelting the cops with stones, she alleged. The complainant and three other police personnel were injured in the attack.

The police registered the case under Sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter a public servant from discharging his duty), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from his duty), 147 (punishment for rioting) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of the offences committed with common intention). The counsel said the charges in the FIR were false and their clients were falsely implicated in the case. The case was registered out of political vendetta. No proper inquiry was held before registering the case and the facts were also not verified, said the counsel. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Master Baldev Singh and some other AAP leaders were already granted anticipatory bail by the court in the case.

2-year-old case

The police alleged that the AAP workers, instigated by the leaders, pelted cops with stones when they were stopped near the MLA hostel on January 10, 2020.

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