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Sandeep Pathak moves HC, seeks details of Punjab Police FIRs, protections from arrest

The Indian Express·Jagpreet Singh Sandhu·26 days ago
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Rajya Sabha MP Sandeep Pathak Thursday moved the Punjab and Haryana High court seeking directions to the Punjab government and the state police to disclose the particulars of “two or more FIRs” registered against him. Pathak has also sought protection from any coercive action, including arrest, till he is able to avail legal remedies against the said FIRs. The matter is scheduled to come up for hearing before the High Court on Friday. On April 24, seven of Aam Aadmi Party’s 10 Rajya Sabha MPs — Raghav Chadha, Ashok Mittal, Sandeep Pathak, Harbhajan Singh, Rajendra Gupta, Vikramjit Sahney and Swati Maliwal — quit and merged with the BJP. Barring Maliwal, all others were from Punjab. In his petition, filed through advocates Arjun Sheoran, Tejasvi Sheokhand, Pathak claimed that after he joined the BJP, he came to know through “media reports, informal channels and word-of-mouth communications” that the Punjab Police had registered two FIRs against him in different districts for unspecified cognisable offences.…

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