Punjab: Former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas moves high court, seeks quashing of FIR against him

Former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas on Tuesday moved the Punjab and Haryana high court, seeking quashing of an FIR lodged against him in Punjab over his "inflammatory statements" against Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. In the petition, Vishwas, also a poet, submitted that the case registered against him by the Rupnagar police was a “sheer abuse of the process of law and politically motivated”. “The manner in which the investigating agency is proceeding, it is apparent that it investigating agency is trying to curtail the liberty of the petitioner by adopting a procedure unknown to law,” Kumar said in his petition filed through his counsel Mayank Aggarwal and Himanshu Gupta. It was further submitted that the registration of the FIR against Kumar is “absolutely illegal, arbitrary and unjust and it is nothing but a means to wreak vengeance through politically motivated criminal investigation by using the state machinery for oblique motive of political gain”.

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