Day after bail, MLA Raman Arora arrested in fresh extortion case
Jalandhar, Sept. 5 -- A day after the Punjab and Haryana high court granted Jalandhar Central AAP MLA Raman Arora bail, the Jalandhar commissionerate police arrested him in another case of extortion and criminal intimidation. He was yet to be released from jail.
The Jalandhar police team brought Arora on a production warrant from Nabha jail and produced him in a local court that sent him to three-day police custody.
The Punjab Vigilance Bureau had arrested the MLA on May 23 following a month-long investigation in a corruption and extortion racket allegedly being run under his patronage.
According to a fresh FIR registered at Rama Mandi police station on August 23, Arora was accused of extorting money from a Jalandhar-based parking lot contractor.
Arora's lawyer Naveen Chadha said they came to know about the registration of the fresh case only on Thursday morning.
"We came to know the case was registered on the complaint of contractor Ramesh Kumar, who in his complaint, accused Arora of extorting monthly payments of Rs.30,000. We are yet to get a detailed copy of the FIR," Chadha said.
Coming out of the Jalandhar court complex, Arora said: "The government is deliberately framing me in a false case."
The VB has already filed a 900-page chargesheet against Arora in the corruption case and accused him of misusing his political power to gain undue financial gains from local traders and owners of commercial complexes.
The chargesheet carried the statements of top doctors, traders, industrialists and real estate developers. It has been alleged that Arora and other accused orchestrated the corruption-cum-extortion racket where building violation notices were issued to builders and the matter was then resolved in exchange for bribes.
During a seven-hour raid on the MLA's residence on May 23, the Punjab Vigilance Bureau seized Rs.6 lakh, 1.2kg of gold ornaments and incriminating documents. Officials recovered 75-80 notices allegedly issued as part of this extortion racket....
To read the full article or to get the complete feed from this publication, please
Contact Us.