New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Harmit Singh Pathanmajra has been absconding since September after being charged with a rape case in Punjab.

It has now emerged that the Punjab legislator has fled to Australia, after he appeared in a video interview with an Australia-based Punjabi web channel. ADVERTISEMENT

He declared in that interview that he would “return home only after securing bail.”

The development has left the Punjab Police and AAP-helmed state government red-faced. Punjab Police failed to trace the Sanour MLA after multiple raids at various locations.

A lookout notice has now been issued against Pathanmajra.

In the interview, the first-time legislator has denied all allegations against him and called the case a “political conspiracy” aimed at silencing those who speak fo

See Full Page