Chandigarh, April 25 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has sought the state government's response on a plea from AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmjara, alleging threat to life and liberty. The bench of justice Tribhuvan Dahiya acted on a plea from the legislator, who claimed that a series of "malicious, false and politically motivated criminal proceedings" had been initiated against him at the instance of the ruling dispensation, solely on account of him being a vocal critic of the government. Pathanmajra, 51, a first-time legislator from the Sanaur constituency of Patiala district, was arrested on March 24 from the outskirts of Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh. He was brought to Patiala on March 25. Police had been on his lookout since September 2025 after he was booked for raping a Zirakpur woman. While he was in judicial custody in Bathinda Central Jail, Punjab Police arrested him in a mining case on April 20. Though a Patiala court ordered his transfer to the Patiala prison, he was taken back to the Bathinda jail, with jail officials refusing to comment on the reason. In his plea, the MLAexpressed apprehensions that he will be falsely implicated and arrested, and demanded that direction be given to the official respondents to serve an advance notice of seven working days to him in case they intended to investigate or arrest him in any FIR/complaint. The plea also sought that Punjab be directed to inform him if he was nominated/required in any other FIR/inquiry/complaint pending against him. His counsels senior advocate Preetinder Ahluwalia and Deepinder Singh Virk said the response had been sought by May 6....