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Rape case: Patiala Police had issued a lookout notice against the AAP MLA so that he could not go abroad, but despite this his leaving the country has raised questions on the security arrangements.
Rape case: Information about AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra from Sanaur, Punjab, who was absconding since September 2 in a rape case, has fled to Australia. This was revealed after he appeared in a video interview recently. This incident has become a cause of great embarrassment for the Punjab Police, because despite continuous raids on the possible hideouts of the MLA, he remained out of reach. Patiala Police had issued a lookout notice against him so that he could not go abroad, but despite this his leaving the country has raised questions on the security arrangements. Pathanmajra appeared in a video interview with an Australia-based Punjabi web channel on Friday, in which he claimed that he would return home only after securing bail. Denying all the allegations, he termed the case as a political conspiracy aimed at silencing the voices speaking for the people of Punjab.
Expressed full confidence in the judiciary
Said that ministers and MLAs are not consulted on important matters in Punjab. Alleged that freedom of expression is being curbed. After losing in Delhi, those leaders have now captured Punjab and they are ruining it in the same way. He has expressed full faith in the judiciary. A Patiala court has started proceedings against Pathan Majra for declaring him a criminal after he did not appear in the rape case. Pathanmajra, a first-time MLA, escaped from police custody when Punjab Police went to Karnal in Haryana to arrest him. The police had then claimed that his supporters opened fire and pelted stones at the police team that had gone to arrest the MLA in Dabri village of Karnal district. The MLA was at the house of one of his relatives.
The woman had accused him of sexual exploitation
However, Pathanmajra denied any involvement in the firing and said that when he learned that he would be killed in a fake encounter, he ran away. The police had registered a case against the AAP MLA at the Civil Lines police station on September 1 on charges of rape, cheating and criminal intimidation. The case was registered on the complaint of a woman from Zirakpur, who alleged that the MLA had relations with her after claiming to be a divorcee. Even though he was already married. The woman had accused the MLA of continuously sexually harassing her, issuing threats and sending her obscene material.
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