Chandigarh, Oct 9, 2025

A trial court in Punjab’s Patiala, on Thursday, dismissed the anticipatory bail plea, second consecutive time, of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator Harmeet Pathanmajra, who has been on the run after being booked in a rape case on September 2.

His counsel told the media that they would now move to the Punjab and Haryana High Court for the anticipatory bail.

The police registered a case against the first-time legislator from Sanaur on September 1 on charges of rape, cheating, and criminal intimidation.

The 50-year-old legislator had fled from his relative house at the Dabri village in Karnal on September 2, minutes after a Punjab Police team arrived to arrest him in connection with a rape case.

Pathanmajra has been denying police claims that bullets were fired at

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