India, April 15 -- Leader of opposition and Congress MLA Partap Singh Bajwa on Tuesday moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking quashing of the FIR against him by the Mohali police on allegations of providing misleading information with the intention to disturb peace by claiming that 50 bombs have reached the border state.

The petition was filed on Tuesday morning and a mentioning seeking urgent hearing was made by the former advocate general Punjab, APS Deol. After the mentioning, he said, the petition has been allowed to be taken up by the high court on Wednesday.

According to Deol, Bajwa has alleged in the petition that the FIR arises out of "political vendetta unleashed by the state".

"No such statement that could create any...