The Punjab and Haryana High Court has taken note of a complainant’s affidavit accusing the police of concocting a story and registering an FIR in a rape case on wrong premises before granting bail to Harvinder Singh Harpalpur, a senior SAD leader and a relative of SAD MP Prem Singh Chandumajra.
Harpalpur, also former vice-chairman of the Punjab Khadi and Industrial Board, had relied upon the affidavit which, among other things, said the police took the complainant’s thumb impressions on blank papers and misused the signed papers. Implication at the behest of local MLA, belonging to the ruling party, was also alleged.