Chandigarh, March 31 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday acquitted AAP legislator Manjinder Singh Lalpura and seven others in a 2013 case of molestation and assault, involving a woman from the Scheduled Caste (SC) community, after a compromise was reached between the two parties.

Lalpura, MLA from Khadoor Sahib, was awarded four-year jail by a Tarn Taran court on September 10, 2025, effectively unseating him from the assembly as the sentence awarded was more than two years. Under the existing election law in Section 8(3) of the Representation of the People Act, 1951, a person convicted of any offence and sentenced to imprisonment for not less than two years gets disqualified from the date of such conviction and continues to be...