The Punjab and Haryana High Court right now ordered a keep on the arrest of former Aam Aadmi Party chief Kumar Vishwas in an FIR registered towards him by the Punjab Police. Vishwas was booked final month over the obvious allegations of separatism he levelled towards Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Vishwas, on his half, has maintained that he didn’t title anybody and that the case towards him was politically motivated.
Staying prison proceedings towards Vishwas, a single-judge bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara noticed that the submission that the FIR was politically motivated “cannot be ruled out” and the proof collected doesn’t prima facie disclose any cognisable offence dedicated by Vishwas.
Vishwas, a founder member of AAP, had moved the High Court after the Punjab Police lodged an FIR towards him and charged him with abetting violence by levelling false accusations towards Delhi Chief Minister and AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal. The complainants had alleged that Vishwas, in media interviews within the run-up to the Punjab meeting elections, had levelled allegations of “separatism” towards Kejriwal. This, the complainants alleged, resulted in violence towards its staff and supporters of the get together in April.
The courtroom, nevertheless, failed to seek out any connection between the 2 occasions and unable to rule out any political motivation behind the FIR, stayed Vishwas’ arrest.
In February this yr, Vishwas, with out naming Kejriwal, mentioned in an interview that the AAP supremo had “separatist tendencies” and that he as soon as instructed him that “he would become the Chief Minister of an independent state or an independent country”. The remarks triggered a serious controversy forward of the Punjab elections which noticed AAP storm to energy within the border state with a thumping majority.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”