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Tajinder Pal Bagga Arrest Case: HC directs no coercive action against BJP leader till next date of hearing

THE TIMES OF INDIA | May 07, 2022, 23:59:05 IST

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Tajinder Pal Bagga Arrest Case: HC directs no coercive action against BJP leader till next date of hearing

The Punjab and Haryana HC has directed the Punjab government not to take any coercive action against BJP leader Tajinder Pal Bagga till next date of hearing. Earlier, a Mohali court on Saturday had issued an arrest warrant against him and had instructed the police to arrest him and produce before it. Stay with TOI for all updates:

12:32 (IST) May 07

Notably, Bagga reached his residence in Delhi on the intervening nights of Friday and Saturday after Delhi police brought him back from Haryana where he was en route to Mohali after he was arrested by Punjab Police. (ANI)

12:18 (IST) May 07

Nearly 50 Punjab cops came to arrest me as they would do with a terrorist, claims Bagga

Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga on Saturday claimed that over 50 Punjab policemen came to arrest him as they would do it with a "terrorist".He accused the Punjab police of kidnapping him and alleged that he was not shown any warrant.

12:15 (IST) May 07

Bagga said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) registered an FIR based against him on the basis of a "trimmed" video from his remarks on a television show where he had sought an apology from Kejriwal for his speech on the exodus of Kashmiri pandits in the Delhi Assembly in March. (ANI)

12:03 (IST) May 07

"Nearly 10 police vehicles had come which could be seen in the CCTV footage. It is an attempt to give a message that whosoever speaks against Arvind Kejriwal would be the biggest terrorist and not spared," said Bagga. (ANI)

11:50 (IST) May 07

Bagga narrated the entire episode of his arrest

"I was not shown any warrant. When nearly eight people picked me up, I told them to let me tie my turban. They did not give me the chance to wear the turban and slippers. I was thrown into the vehicle. I was kidnapped by the Punjab police. The local police were also not informed. Nearly 50 policemen came as they do it with a terrorist," he said. (ANI)

11:38 (IST) May 07

Bagga claims Punjab Police 'arrested him as if he was a terrorist'

Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga on Saturday claimed that the Punjab police had barged into his home in large numbers and arrested him "as they do it with a terrorist". (ANI)

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11:35 (IST) May 07

Tajinder Bagga vows to continue fight until Kejriwal apologizes for his comments on Kashmiri Pandits

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga on Friday termed his detention by the Punjab police as "illegal" and said that he will keep fighting until Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal apologised for his comments on Kashmiri Pandits. (ANI)

11:34 (IST) May 07

“Haryana police had carried out the operation on an alert by the Delhi Police about a complaint of kidnapping. In fact, the Punjab Police have turned out to be an interrogation-cum-torture centre of the Aam Aadmi Party for vindictive politics,” Vij said.

11:33 (IST) May 07

Even as senior police offcers kept mum on the dramatic arrest and release of BJP leader Tejinder Pal Singh Bagga on Friday, Haryana home minister Anil Vij said his state’s police force had stopped Punjab Police team which arrested Bagga on the basis of an alert sent by Delhi Police.

11:23 (IST) May 07

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In a span of six hours on Friday, BJP functionary Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was arrested by Punjab police from his Delhi home, intercepted by Haryana police in Kurukshetra and handed over to Delhi police in a flurry of developments that pitted state police forces against one another and triggered a political slugfest.

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09:54 (IST) May 07

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