India, March 23 -- Former Punjab transport minister and Patti AAP MLA Laljit Singh Bhullar was arrested from Mandi Gobindgarh in Fatehgarh Sahib district on Monday afternoon. A senior police officer confirmed the arrest to HT, noting it is in connection with the suicide of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the Amritsar district manager of the Punjab State Warehousing Corporation.

Randhawa had allegedly consumed poison on Saturday after accusing Bhullar and his associates of relentless harassment over a warehouse tender. Before his death, Randhawa reportedly filmed a video in Punjabi, stating, "Your friend has eaten Celphos because of fear of minister Laljit Bhullar. I will not survive now." Subsequent CCTV footage also purportedly captured him c...