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Lok Insaaf Party chief Simarjeet Singh Bains and two of his brothers have been arrested in a 2021 rape case
Known for his firebrand politics that involves conducting “sting operations” to barging into government offices, Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) chief and former MLA from Ludhiana’s Atam Nagar, Simarjeet Singh Bains, now finds himself on the other side of the fence.
A year after he was booked in an alleged rape case filed by a 44-year old woman and three months after a local court in Ludhiana declared him a ‘proclaimed offender’, Simarjeet finally surrendered in court on Monday, along with his brother Paramjit Singh Bains alias Pamma and three other accused.
Of four siblings, popularly known as “Bains brothers”, Simarjeet, 52, the youngest, and Balwinder Singh Bains, 63, the eldest, are two-time former MLAs from Atam Nagar and Ludhiana South, respectively. However, with an AAP wave sweeping through Punjab, the brothers lost in the recent Assembly polls.
The other two brothers — Karamjit and Paramjit — handle the family’s sewing-machine manufacturing business and weren’t much in the limelight until they were named co-accused in the rape case, along with Simarjeet. The three Bains brothers have now been arrested in the alleged rape case after the woman alleged that Simarjeet “raped her multiple times” in 2020 when she approached him for help in a property dispute case. She also named Karamjit, who was the first to be arrested, and Paramjit.
In the 2022 polls, Simarjeet was up against SAD’s Harish Rai Dhanda, the advocate for the woman who filed the rape complaint. However, both lost to AAP candidate Kulwant Singh Sidhu. So did Simarjeet’s brother Balwinder from Ludhiana South, thus ending the Lok Insaaf Party’s political outing in Punjab.
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