The Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab has filed criminal defamation cases against its Delhi MLA Devender Sehrawat, who had accused the partys state leaders of exploiting women in return for tickets, and former party leaders HS Kingra and Paviter Singh.

AAPs Punjab affairs in-charge Sanjay Singh and National Organisation Building Secretary Durgesh Pathak filed the cases in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Chandigarh.

An AAP release said Singh and Pathak filed a joint case of criminal defamation against Sehrawat whose allegations, they said, "defame the women of Punjab".