Punjab MLA Harmit Singh Pathanmajra, who has been absconding since September 2 after being booked in a rape and cheating case, has allegedly fled to Australia, PTI reported on Sunday.
This came to light after the Aam Aadmi Party legislator from Patiala district’s Sanour appeared in a video interview on Friday with an Australia-based Punjabi web channel. In the interview, Pathanmajra said that he was in Australia and would “return home only after securing bail”.
He claimed that he had been “framed”, The Indian Express reported.
The MLA had been booked on charges of rape, cheating and criminal intimidation on September 1 after a woman from Zirakpur accused him of sexually exploiting her on the pretext of marriage, the newspaper reported. She also alleged that he had concealed his first marriage.
After the registration of the first information report, the Punjab Police had sent a team to arrest him from his relative’s home in Haryana’s Karnal district. However, Pathanmajra escaped amid his supporters allegedly throwing stones and firing shots at the police.
The police issued a look-out notice against the MLA and have been trying to trace him. He has not been arrested despite being active on social media and giving interviews on television.
A court in Patiala has rejected his petition for anticipatory bail and has issued a proclamation...
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