High drama prevailed in Karnal’s Dabri village on Tuesday as AAP MLA from Sanaur Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra evaded arrest by the Punjab Police in a case of rape and cheating lodged against him in Patiala on Monday on the complaint of a Zirakpur-based woman.

The police claimed Pathanmajra’s supporters and villagers allegedly fired gunshots and pelted them with stones, which allowed the MLA to escape. The action against Pathanmajra came days after he publicly criticised his own party’s government over its “mishandling of the flood relief efforts”. He also accused a “Delhi lobby of interfering in Punjab’s internal affairs”.

Pathanmajra was learnt to be at the residence of his relative Gurnam Singh, alias Laadi, a member of the Haryana Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee (HSGMC), when the Pati

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