[Chandigarh,Haryana ] AAP MLA Now Booked for Cheating in Haryana;Party As usual Slams BJP
Police has booked AAP MLA from Delhi Cantonment Surinder Singh on the charge of cheating after he was accused of getting a job as a government teacher on the basis of a fake graduation degree.
Acting on the complaint of BJP leader Karan Singh Tanwar, a former MLA from Delhi Cantonment, the Jhajjar police booked him.
Police today said Tanwar had moved a complaint before Jhajjar SP seeking registration of a case against the legislator after accusing him of getting the job on the basis of a forged graduation degree.
Reacting to the development, AAP leader from Haryana Naveen Jaihind charged it was being done at the behest of the ruling BJP and an atmosphere is being created to “browbeat our MLAs”.
The complaint against Surinder Singh is that he was employed as teacher in a government school in Jhajjar, a job which he is alleged to have got on the basis of a forged graduation degree.
The AAP claimed that “Delhi police had given him clean chit earlier when similar charge was levelled against him”.
So far, 12 AAP MLAs were arrested by the Delhi Police and their Punjab counterpart in various cases since the party came to power in Delhi for a second time in February last year.
The party has claimed that its MLAs were being arrested under a “conspiracy