The Congress Party on Wednesday welcomed today’s decision of Punjab and Haryana High Court to quash two different FIRs registered against BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga and former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas.
The Rupnagar Police had booked Vishwas in Punjab over his alleged inflammatory statements against AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal and Bagga was booked on charges of making provocative statements, promoting enmity and criminal intimidation at Mohali in April. Hearing a petition filed by Kumar Vishwas, the Punjab-Haryana High Court has ordered the High Court to quash the case registered against him in Punjab’s Rupnagar.
In his petition, Vishwas had submitted that the case registered against him was sheer abuse of the process of law and apparently politically motivated.
“The manner in which the investigating agency is proceeding, it is apparent that it is trying to curtail the liberty of the petitioner by adopting a procedure unknown to law,” he had submitted.
Punjab Congress President ASR Warring said that the party welcomes the cancellation of the FIR against Kumar Vishwas and Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga by the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
‘HC quashing of FIRs huge
embarrassment for Kejriwal’
Quashing of FIRs by Punjab & Haryana High Court against BJP leader Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga and former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas was a huge embarrassment not only for Bhagwant Mann government but also for his political mentor Arvind Kejriwal.
Senior Congress Leader and Punjab’s Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Partap Singh Bajwa made the aforesaid remarks on Wednesday while reprimanding Bhagwant Mann asking him to get his act together and not run the state on his sheer whims and fancies.
The whole world knew sending senior Punjab Police officials all the way to Delhi to nab Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was a sheer political vendetta and was orchestrated on the directions of Arvind Kejriwal to settle personal scores.
Similarly in the case of Kumar Vishwas too it was only on the direction of Arvind Kejriwal the Punjab Police had registered a case against the renowned poet.
“Arvind Kejriwal could not tolerate stinging criticism by his old colleague and AAP founder member Kumar Vishwas and wanted to teach him a lesson. That’s why an FIR was registered against him in Rupnagar, Punjab. In both the cases Bagga and Vishwas had allegedly made the statements in Delhi. Hence the Punjab Police had no jurisdiction to go all the way to Delhi to arrest Bagga and register case against Vishwas in Punjab.
