Kumar Vishwas was one of the founding members of the Aam Aadmi Party in 2012. (Credit: Facebook/Kumar Vishwas)
A case was registered against him by the Punjab Police on April 12.
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- Last Update:May 02, 2022, 13:27 IST
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday stayed the arrest of former Aam Aadmi Party leader Kumar Vishwas for allegedly making provocative statements against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. A case was registered against him by the Punjab Police on April 12. Mayank Agarwal, a lawyer for Vishwas, said that the court has stayed the arrest of Vishwas.
The court of Justice Anoop Chitkara fixed July 4 as the next date of hearing. Vishwas had moved the High Court last week to quash the FIR lodged against him.
The High Court had heard the petition on April 27 and then reserved the decision on the matter for Monday. Ahead of the assembly elections, Vishwas had accused Kejriwal of supporting separatists.
The Punjab Police had on April 20 visited the house of the former AAP leader, who is also a poet, in Ghaziabad and called him for questioning. In his petition, Vishwas had said that the case registered against him was a gross abuse of the process of law and was apparently politically motivated.
It is clear from the way the investigating agency is proceeding that it is trying to curtail the liberty of the petitioner by adopting a procedure unknown to law, he had submitted. Vishwas had submitted that the registration of an FIR against him was completely illegal, arbitrary and unjust and it is a means to wreak vengeance through politically motivated criminal investigation by using the state machinery for political gains.
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