India, Sept. 3 -- Harmit Singh Pathanmajra, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Sanaur, triggered a political storm on Tuesday after dramatically slipping out of Punjab Police custody in Haryana's Karnal, hours after being booked in a rape case. Gunshots rang out, a policeman was injured, and the MLA sped away in a white SUV with his aides, leaving the police red-faced. The sensational escape unfolded barely days after Pathanmajra had launched a blistering attack on his own party's Delhi leadership and a senior State bureaucrat over Punjab's flood crisis, fueling allegations that the action against him was politically motivated.
The MLA was booked late Monday night at Patiala's Civil Lines police station after his estranged wife accu...