Patiala, March 25 AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra, who had been on the run in a rape case since last September, was arrested in Patiala, Punjab, officials said on Wednesday.
Pathanmajra, the first-time MLA from Sanour, was wanted in connection with the rape case, which was registered last September. He has been arrested by the Patiala Police, they said.
On September 1, 2025, the police had registered a case against Pathanmajra at the Civil Lines police station here on charges of rape, cheating, and criminal intimidation.
The case was registered based on a complaint by a woman from Zirakpur, who alleged that the MLA misrepresented himself as a divorced man, entered into a relationship with her, and later married her in 2021 while already being married.
She accused him of continued sexual exploitation, threats, and sending "obscene" material to her.
The AAP MLA had been declared a proclaimed offender after he failed to appear in the case.
Pathanmajra had been on the run since September 2 in the rape case. He had escaped police custody when the Punjab police went to Haryana's Karnal to arrest him.
The police had then claimed that shots were fired and stones were pelted by the MLA's supporters after a police team went to arrest him in Dabri village in Karnal district, where he was at the residence of one of his relatives.
However, Pathanmajra had denied the police's claims of involvement in firing at the police and said he fled after learning that he would be killed in a "fake encounter".