Punjab Police arrest rape accused MLA Pathanmajra after six months on the run

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police on Wednesday arrested rape accused and fugitive Punjab MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, who dramatically escaped from the police custody in September last and had been evading arrest since then.

This is the second arrest of an AAP-ruling legislator this week. Earlier, former Transport Minister Laljit Bhullar was arrested on Monday in an abetment to suicide case of a government official.

Earlier, the trial court in Patiala on October 9, 2025, dismissed the anticipatory bail plea, for the second consecutive time, of Pathanmajra, who had been on the run after being booked in a rape case on September 2, 2025.

The police registered a case against the first-time legislator from Sanaur on September 1, 2025, on charges of rape, cheating, and criminal intimidation. The 50-year-old legislator had fled from his relative's house at the Dabri village in Karnal on September 2, 2025, 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 policemen, who had come to arrest him.