New Delhi: Officials said the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday postponed the arrest of Kumar Vishwas, a former AAP leader and poet, in a FIR filed by the Punjab Police for allegedly making inflammatory words against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, among other counts.
Vishwas filed an application with the Punjab and Haryana High Court last week to have the FIR against him quashed.
Vishwas was arrested by the police in Rupnagar on April 12 under sections of the Indian Penal Code relating to promoting enmity between groups, criminal conspiracy, publishing or circulating news with the intent to create enmity on the basis of religion or race, as well as the Representation of People Act, according to the police.
Vishwas claimed in his petition to quash the FIR that after the AAP won a landslide victory in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha elections, a series of complaints and FIRs were filed against its political opponents based on old tweets and utterances in an attempt to harass them.
The appeal went on to say that the filing of the FIR was illegitimate, arbitrary, and unjust, and that it was nothing more than a way for the state to exact retribution through politically motivated criminal investigations.
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