Chandigarh, Oct 13 (PTI) The Punjab Police on Monday said it had booked several people after some AAP MLAs alleged that their signatures were forged on nomination papers submitted by a candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha bypoll.

Navneet Chaturvedi, a resident of Jaipur in Rajasthan, claiming to be the national president of the Janata Party, submitted the nomination papers for the bypoll.

A police spokesperson said that the MLAs stated that they received messages and social media posts indicating that their names had been mentioned as proposers in the nomination papers filed by Chaturvedi before the Punjab Vidhan Sabha secretary.

Chaturvedi filed two nominations for the Rajya Sabha, one on October 6 and another on October 13.

The MLAs complained that a handwritten list of proposers,

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