Bailable warrants against MLA Simarjit Singh Bains in rape case
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Legal Correspondent
Ludhiana, November 12
The magistrate’s court here has ordered to issue bailable warrants of arrest against Lok-Insaaf party chief Simrajit Singh Bains, MLA from Atam Nagar constituency, and six others in a rape case.
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The case will be heard on November 18.
Bains, his personal assistant, and five other people were recently booked in the case on the orders of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Harsimranjit Singh in July 2021.
No arrests have been in the case so far.
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On November 16, 2020, the woman had moved a handwritten application before the Commissioner of Police Ludhiana for an FIR against MLA Bains, Kamaljit Singh, Baljinder Kaur, Jasbir Kaur alias Bhabhi, Sukhchain Singh, Paramjit Singh alias Pamma, and Gogi Sharma of Ludhiana on rape charges and criminal intimidation.
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The woman claimed in her complaint that she came in touch with the MLA over a property dispute but that she was “trapped”.
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