The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted AAP MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura and seven others in a 2013 molestation and assault case following a compromise between the two parties.
Allowing the petition, the Bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya set aside the judgement of a court in Punjab's Tarn Taran, convicting and sentencing the MLA and seven others to four years of imprisonment in last September.
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The Bench also quashed the FIR registered in March 2013 at the Tarn Taran police station under different sections of the IPC along with the provisions of the SC/ST Act.
The complainant woman, who belongs to the Scheduled Caste (SC) community, had alleged that she was assaulted by the accused, including Lalpura and some police personnel from Tarn Taran on March 3, 2013.
