India, Oct. 15 -- A day after a dramatic confrontation between Chandigarh Police and Ropar police near Sukhna Lake over his custody, Janata Party president and forgery accused Navneet Chaturvedi on Wednesday moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking protection from arrest in the criminal case registered against him.

Chaturvedi, who belongs to Rajasthan, had filed two sets of nomination papers as an independent candidate for the October 24 Rajya Sabha byelection in Punjab. In his first set of papers, filed on October 6, he named 10 AAP MLAs as his proposers without their signatures. He submitted a second set of papers on October 13, which carried the names of the 10 AAP MLAs as his proposers along with their signatures. During scrut...