By PTI
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court Saturday evening directed that no coercive step be taken towards Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga after the Delhi BJP chief sought a keep on the arrest warrant issued by a Mohali court docket earlier within the day.
Justice Anoop Chitkara took up Bagga’s petition in an pressing late-night listening to at his residence.
“No coercive steps till May 10,” stated Bagga’s counsel Chetan Mittal on the excessive court docket order.
He stated that the court docket stayed the arrest warrant.
The listening to passed off for round 45 minutes, stated Mittal.
Earlier within the day, the court docket of Judicial Magistrate Ravtesh Inderjit Singh issued the arrest warrant towards Bagga in reference to a case registered final month.
The Punjab Police had booked Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga on the costs of creating provocative statements, selling enmity and legal intimidation.
The case was registered on a criticism of AAP chief Sunny Ahluwalia, a resident of Mohali.
The FIR registered on April 1 referred to Bagga’s remarks on March 30, when he was a part of a BJP youth wing protest exterior the residence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
Bagga was booked beneath related sections, together with 153-A (selling enmity between totally different teams on grounds of faith, race, place and so on), 505 (whoever makes, publishes or circulates any assertion, hearsay or report) and 506 (legal intimidation), of the Indian Penal Code.
Bagga was arrested by the Punjab Police from his Delhi house on Friday, stopped in Haryana whereas being taken to Punjab and introduced again to the nationwide capital by Delhi Police hours later.