Punjab Congress MLA gets bail, held in new case; party calls it vendetta
Hours after he was granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in a case under the NDPS Act and Arms Act, Sukhpal Singh Khaira, Congress MLA from Bholath, was arrested Thursday by Punjab Police in a fresh case.
The new case against Khaira was registered Thursday at Subhanpur police station in Kapurthala under IPC sections 195A (threatening any person to give false evidence) and 506 (criminal intimidation). It was on the complaint of Ranjit Kaur, wife of Kashmir Singh, a resident of Dograwal and the complainant in the earlier case against Khaira.