CHANDIGARH, Oct. 14 -- The Punjab Police on Monday registered a series of FIRs against Navneet Chaturvedi of Jaipur after complaints lodged by at least 10 MLAs of the state legislative assembly for forging their signatures on the nomination papers submitted to contest the Rajya Sabha seat, which fell vacant after the incumbent Sanjeev Arora resigned.

The names of the MLAs have not been disclosed yet, and as revealed by the state police, the FIRs have been registered as the police stations from where these MLAs were elected.

The Rajya Sabha seat fell vacant after AAP leader and Punjab minister Sanjeev Arora resigned from the Upper House to contest the recent Ludhiana West assembly seat byelection. Arora was later inducted into the Bhagwa...