Jalandhar, June 3 -- A local court has sent AAP MLA from Jalandhar Central Raman Arora to judicial custody for 14 days in an alleged corruption and extortion case on Monday.

The vigilance bureau produced him in the court after interrogating him for 10 days. Arora was arrested on May 23 following a month-long investigation in the case in which four persons, including Jalandhar MC assistant town planner (ATP) Sukhdev Vashisht, building branch inspector Harpreet Kaur and Arora's close aide Mahesh Makhija have been arrested so far.

As per the vigilance bureau, Arora and Jalandhar municipal corporation's ATP Sukhdev Vashisht used to identify ongoing or completed commercial and residential construction projects, serve them violation notices, ...