For BJP’s Tajinder Bagga, Early Morning Arrest, Early Evening ‘Rescue’

The Punjab police staff taking Mr Bagga to Mohali was stopped en route by Haryana cops after the Delhi police registered a kidnapping case based mostly on a grievance by Mr Bagga’s father. Haryana police surrounded the Punjab police car carrying Mr Bagga and escorted them off the freeway to a police station in Kurukshetra. A staff of Delhi police reached there.

Delhi police have introduced Mr Bagga again to the nationwide capital after the Haryana police handed him over. Delhi police have additionally filed an FIR in opposition to Punjab police for the alleged kidnapping of Mr Bagga. Mr Bagga shall be produced in entrance of the Responsibility Metropolitan Justice of the Peace Swayam Siddha Tripathi at her Gurugram Residence at 9 PM.

The Punjab & Haryana Excessive Court docket this night turned down the Punjab authorities’s demand to maintain Mr Bagga in Haryana. Haryana authorities will file an affidavit on this regard within the Excessive Court docket tomorrow on the subsequent listening to.

Aam Aadmi Social gathering leaders have defended the arrest saying the Punjab police are appearing in an unbiased manner and the motion was taken after Mr Bagga refused to cooperate with the investigation even after notices had been despatched 5 occasions. AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj has mentioned they’ve collected details about Mr Bagga who he claims makes use of “obscene, poisonous and hateful language” on social media.

Delhi BJP spokesperson Naveen Kumar Jindal claimed round 50 cops barged into Mr Bagga’s Delhi house at round 8:30 within the morning and arrested him. “He could not even put on his turban,” he mentioned.

Mr Bagga’s father has alleged that round 10-15 cops entered their house, punched him and dragged his son out to take him to Punjab. He mentioned the police snatched his telephone when he tried to report a video and seized each his and Mr Bagga’s telephones. He has registered a grievance of kidnapping. The Delhi police FIR on Mr Bagga’s father Preet Pal’s grievance particulars the sequence of occasions narrated by him.

Delhi police claimed they weren’t given any prior data concerning the arrest. Punjab police have, nonetheless, refuted the allegation saying prior intimation was given and considered one of their groups has been at the Janakpuri police station since final night.

Mr Bagga was to be taken to a Punjab court docket. The grievance in opposition to him was registered with the cyber cell at Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar in Punjab’s Mohali district. The fees in opposition to Mr Bagga embody making provocative statements, selling spiritual enmity, and prison intimidation.

Mr Bagga has been very vocal in opposition to Aam Aadmi Social gathering chief Arvind Kejriwal on social media. He got here beneath hearth from the AAP, which is ruling each Delhi and Punjab, for his tweet in opposition to Mr Kejriwal over ‘The Kashmir Information’ film.

BJP leaders have protested in opposition to the police motion saying it is in opposition to freedom of speech.