India, April 14 -- A day after Punjab Police booked Congress MLA Partap Singh Bajwa, the leader of opposition in the state assembly, for providing misleading information that endangers the country's sovereignty and unity by claiming that 50 bombs have reached the border state, a Mohali court on Monday directed the cyber crime wing to upload the first information report besides handing him a hard copy of the FIR.

Bajwa was booked under Sections 197(1)(d) (false and misleading information that endangers country's sovereignty and unity) and 353(2) (false statements intend to create enmity and hatred or ill will), a non-bailable offence, of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at the cyber crime police station in Phase-7, Mohali, on Sunday night. He ...