On Friday night, BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was produced at a Metropolitan Magistrate’s Gurgaon house after Delhi Police brought him back from Kurukshetra. He was released at midnight and permitted to return home. “As per his MLC (medico-legal case) report, he suffered an injury on his back and shoulder during the incident,” stated his lawyer, Sanket Gupta, Indian Express reported.
“After a long day, Bagga was produced before the duty magistrate, and duty magistrate perused the medical records and it was found that he had suffered an injury to his back and shoulder. Bagga expressed apprehension that this sort of incident could happen again tomorrow or day after tomorrow,” Gupta said.
According to Gupta, the court took notice of this and ordered the SHO to provide proper security for Bagga and his father, the complainant.
The Delhi Police had filed a FIR and its inspector Antariksh moved the Dwarka court for a search order after the Punjab Police squad abducted Bagga in the morning and his father made a complaint at the Janakpuri police station stating he had been abducted.
“This is to authorise and require you to search (for) Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga… as submitted by SHO and, if found, to produce the same forthwith before this court, returning this warrant, with an endorsement, certifying what you have done under it, immediately upon its execution,” Metropolitan Magistrate Neetika Kapoor wrote in the warrant.
The Indian Express quoted Additional Solicitor General Satya Pal Jain, who represented Delhi Police before the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a separate habeas corpus case filed by Punjab Police, as saying that when Bagga was taken from his home by Punjab Police “without informing Delhi Police,” his father lodged a FIR claiming his son had been kidnapped and that he believed he was in danger.
“We filed a police report on it.” We approached the court after filing the FIR because it was a kidnapping case and Punjab Police had not informed Delhi Police about his arrest. We needed a search warrant because he could be held somewhere. There is a provision in the legislation for obtaining a search warrant. When we flashed the search warrant, we discovered that he was being transported in a vehicle. Near Pipli, they were captured. When they were captured, the man was reported to Delhi Police. Bagga was taken into jail by Delhi Police based on the search warrant,” he added.
Tajinder Bagga’s arrest and the dramatic events that followed
BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga was detained by the Punjab Police from his Delhi residence on Friday, was halted by the Haryana Police at Kurukshetra while being transferred to Mohali, and was then escorted back to the national capital by the Delhi Police.
The arrest was made after the leader failed to appear before the Punjab Police despite being handed five notices in connection with the ‘inflammatory speeches’ case.
Bagga was charged with making an inflammatory statement, spreading religious enmity, and criminal intimidation by the Punjab Police earlier this month after he targeted Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal over his comments on ‘The Kashmir Files.’
The Chenab Times News Desk