Tajinder Bagga
Court bars Punjab govt from 'coercive action' on BJP's Tajinder Bagga's plea
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court tonight directed the Punjab government not to take any coercive action against BJP leader Tajinder Bagga till the next hearing on May 10, media reports said.
The decision was issued after Bagga approached the court challenging the Mohali Court's non-bailable arrest warrant issued on Saturday.
The late-night hearing of the plea was conducted at the residence of Justice Anoop Chitkara in Chandigarh.
Judicial Magistrate Ravtesh Inderjit Singh had issued the arrest warrant in connection with a case registered against Bagga on the charges of making provocative statements, promoting enmity and for alleged criminal intimidation.
"Keeping in view the fact that sufficient opportunities have already been granted to the accused to join the investigation and despite the accused has failed to join the investigation. It is necessary in the interest of the justice to issue non-bailable warrants of the accused Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga for 23.05.2022, who is evading arrest, in order to facilitate the investigation," the judge said in the order, reported NDTV.
Bagga has been booked under the offences of Sections 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language), 505 (inciting violence against a class or community) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the India Penal Code (IPC).
A high-voltage drama ensued on Friday after Punjab Police arrested the BJP leader.
A team of Punjab Police on Friday morning arrested the BJP leader from his residence in Janakpuri area of the national capital, but Haryana Police stopped the vehicles carrying Bagga to Mohali and later handed him over to a team of Delhi Police, which brought him back to the national capital and produced him before a Magistrate on Friday evening.
Delhi Police registered a kidnapping case on a complaint filed by Pritpal Singh Bagga, father of Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga.
In his complaint, Pritpal alleged that some people took away his son from their residence at around 0800 hrs on Friday.
After the FIR was lodged, the Delhi Police obtained a search warrant from the Dwarka district court.
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