Accused of rape, AAP’s Punjab MLA Harmit Singh Pathanmajra flees to Australia

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”.

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.