Chandigarh, Oct. 19 -- In an unusual legal battle involving two politicians now associated with the Congress, a Patiala court has sentenced former Ludhiana MLA Simarjit Singh Bains to one year of rigorous imprisonment in a criminal defamation case filed by former Punjab health minister and senior Congress leader Brahm Mohindra over allegations made against him eight years ago.
The verdict has brought into focus an unusual political situation. Mohindra was a minister in the Congress government when Bains levelled corruption allegations against him in 2018, but Bains himself has since joined the Congress, placing both politicians in the same party.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Ekta Sahota convicted Bains, a former legislator from Ludhiana's At...