GG News Bureau
Chandigarh, 2nd May. The Punjab and Haryana High Court stayed the arrest of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas on Monday in a case of allegedly making inciting statements against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The case was lodged against Vishwas by the Punjab Police on April 12.
The HC stayed the arrest of Kumar Vishwas, said Mayank Aggarwal, one of his counsels.
The court of Justice Anoop Chitkara has scheduled July 4 as the next date of hearing.
Kumar Vishwas had moved the high court last week, seeking repealing of the FIR registered against him.
The HC had heard the petition on April 27 and then reserved its decision on the matter for Monday.
Ahead of the assembly polls, Kumar Vishwas had accused Arvind Kejriwal of encouraging separatists.
The Punjab Police on April 20 had visited the former AAP leader’s house in Ghaziabad and summoned him for questioning.
In his petition, Kumar had submitted that the case filed against him was an utter abuse of process of law and seemingly politically motivated.
The way in which the investigating agency is going on, it is clear that it is trying to restrict the liberty of the petitioner by adopting a procedure unknown to law, Vishwas had submitted.
Kumar Vishwas had submitted that the filing of the FIR against him was unquestionably illegal, illogical and unjust and it is nothing but a means to wreak vengeance through politically motivated criminal investigation by using the state machinery for oblique reasons of political gain.
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