Chandigarh, March 26 -- Aam Aadmi Party's Sanaur legislator Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra has become the sixth party MLA arrested by the Punjab Police or vigilance authorities during the Bhagwant Mann government's tenure.

Police arrested Pathanmajra and his three associates from Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday night in connection with a rape and criminal intimidation case. He had been absconding since September 2 last year and was declared a proclaimed offender. A lookout notice had also been issued against him.

The Sanaur MLA's arrest came just two days after former cabinet minister and AAP's Patti MLA Laljit Singh Bhullar was taken into custody from Mandi Gobindgarh in Fatehgarh Sahib district on Monday. Bhullar had resigned from the...