The Punjab police on Friday arrested BJP leader Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga from his residence in Delhi in connection with making allegedly inflammatory statements to flare up communal enmity.
The police in a statement said that an FIR was registered against Mr. Bagga on April 1, 2022 under Sections 153 A, 505, 505(2), 506 of the Indian Penal Code at the Punjab State Cyber Crime wing at Mohali in S.A.S Nagar district.
He has been accused of causing instigation-incitement-criminal intimidation to cause violence, use of force, and imminent hurt in a predesigned and orchestrated manner by making-publishing provocative, false and communal inflammatory statements through his interview given to the media and through his posts on Twitter, said the statement.
