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AAP candidate arrested in Nainital, sent to 14 days judicial custody

DEHRADUN: In what has left the Aam Aadmi Party camp distraught in Nainital, its candidate from the prestigious Lok Sabha seat, eminent poet Balli Singh Cheema, has been arrested for violating the model code of conduct and sent to 14 days in judicial custody. Polling in Nainital is scheduled for May 7, and because Cheema hasn't sought bail he will be out only on May 5. 

Though Cheema was arrested along with 16 of his supporters, 14 of them are out on bail. The two who decided to remain with him are now with the AAP candidate in Haldwani jail. 

"A senior police official had stopped Cheema's vehicle on Sunday and found that the vehicle had two loudspeakers against the permitted norm of one," SSP Udhamsingh Nagar Ridhim Aggarwal told TOI. When the police official asked Cheema to produce the papers of the vehicle, he failed to do so, she said. 

Police officers handling the case claimed that late Sunday night the AAP members, in violation of section 144 of CrPC, had held a protest following which orders were given to arrest them. 

The three AAP members were arrested under section 145 (joining or continuing in unlawful assembly knowing it has been commanded to disperse) and 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon) of the IPC, a police officer said. 

But AAP's state convener Harish Chandra Arya had a different version. "As per my information, a police officer on the behest of some politicians and administrative officials misbehaved with Cheema and forcibly impounded his vehicle. When the party members raised their voice, they were arrested." 

Arya claimed that Cheema, "a prominent figure associated with the common man and with towering image", had managed to make both Congress and BJP workers anxious. "It is a planned move to pressurise the AAP candidate," he added. 

During his over 40-year-career, 61-year-old Cheema has bagged several prestigious awards. In 2004 he was given the Devbhoomi Ratna Samman; Kumaon Gaurav Samman in 2005 and Kavita Kosh Samman in 2011. In 2012, President Pratibha Patil handed him the prestigious Gangasharan Singh Puraskar for his outstanding contribution to Hindi literature. 

Le mashaale chal pade hain log mere gaon ke, ab andhera jeet lenge log mere gaon ke (People from my village have come out bearing torches in their hands, now they will conquer the darkness), a poem written by Cheema, had become the virtual anthem of the statehood campaign in 2000.
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