Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday stayed the arrest of former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and poet Kumar Vishwas in a criminal case registered against him.
Punjab Police had registered a criminal case against him in Rupnagar on April 12.
Vishwas was booked for promoting enmity between groups, criminal conspiracy, publishing or circulating a news report with intent to create enmity on the grounds of religion and race besides the Representation of People Act on the complaint of Narinder Singh.
The high court bench of justice Anoop Chitkara observed that the penal provisions under which the petitioner stands arraigned are not prima facie made out against him.
Even if all the allegations made in the complaint and the prompt investigation, which has covered almost all aspects, are hypothetically believed as gospel truth, still prima facie the evidence collected does not disclose the commission of any cognizable offence qua the petitioner,” the bench said, granting a stay on his arrest.
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