Punjab police have arrested rape accused Punjab MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, who had been evading arrest for more than six months. He is the second Punjab MLA arrested in two days. MLA and former transport minister Laljit Bhullar was arrested on March 23 in an abetment to suicide case.
Notably, he has become the sixth party MLA arrested by the Punjab Police or vigilance authorities during the Bhagwant Mann government’s tenure.
Police arrested Pathanmajra and his three associates from Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, at night in connection with a rape and criminal intimidation case. He had been absconding since September 2, 2025 and was declared a proclaimed offender. A lookout notice had also been issued against him.
The Sanaur MLA’s arrest came just two days after former cabinet minister and AAP’s Patti MLA Laljit Singh Bhullar was taken into custody from Mandi Gobindgarh in Fatehgarh Sahib.
The AAP legislators arrested in last 4 years include former health minister and Mansa MLA Vijay Singla, who was detained by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) in May 2022 on charges of alleged corruption. Singla was the first AAP MLA to be arrested after the party came to power in Punjab in March 2022. However, he got a clean chit last year.
In February 2023, Bathinda Rural MLA Amit Rattan Kotfatta was caught by the VB on corruption charges. Jalandhar Central MLA Raman Arora was arrested by the VB in May last year in a corruption case involving a municipal corporation official, whereas Khadoor Sahib MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura was arrested in September last year following his conviction by a court in Tarn Taran in a 12-year-old case of molestation and assault of a woman. All six are first-time MLAs.
