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MP Bhagwant Mann booked for 'abusing' journalists in Punjab
2016-09-04 | Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab
Ref: http://www.htsyndication.com/htsportal/article/MP-Bhagwant-Mann-booked-for--abusing--journalists-in-Punjab/15551398
Punjab Police booked AAP MP Bhagwant Mann for allegedly hurling abuses at journalists during a public rally at Bassi Pathana on Thursday.

The FIR against Mann and other party volunteers was registered on the complaint of Journalists Association of Fatehgarh Sahib District secretary, Ranjodh Singh.

The complaint alleged that Mann instigated AAP volunteers against scribes present at the rally. They manhandled them and even damaged a camera belonging to one of them, it said.