AAP MLA Harmeet Singh Pathanmajra was arrested from Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior, more than six months after he escaped police custody in a rape case, a senior Punjab Police officer on Wednesday said.

Pathanmajra, the first-time MLA from Sanour, was nabbed along with his three associates from the outskirts of the Gwalior area late on Tuesday night, Patiala SSP Varun Sharma said. He was brought back to Patiala and presented before a court, which sent him to a four-day police remand, he added.

SSP Sharma told reporters that the breakthrough came from a hotel Wi-Fi connection in Gwalior, where a UK-based mobile number was traced. Investi was allegedly being used by Pathanmajra, ultimately leading police to his location. He was arrested along with his three associates, the SSP said.

The Patiala police had booked Pathanmajra under Sections 376 (rape), 420 (cheating), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on September 1, 2025. The case was registered based on a complaint by a Zirakpur-based woman, who alleged that the MLA misrepresented himself as a divorcee, entered into a relationship with her and later married her in 2021 while already being married. She had also accused him of continued sexual exploitation, threats and sending “obscene” material to her.

Pathanmajra’s arrest came two days after former transport minister Laljit Singh Bhullar was held from Mandi Gobindarh on charges of abetting the suicide of an official of the warehousing corporation in Amritsar.

Pathanmajra is the sixth Punjab AAP MLA to be arrested after the party assumed power in 2022. In May 2022, then health minister Vijay Singla was held on corruption charges. Bathinda Rural MLA Amit Rattan Kotfatta was held in a bribery case in February 2023. Jalandhar Central MLA Raman Arora was arrested in a corruption case involving an official of the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation in May 2025, while Khadoor Sahib MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura was held after he was convicted in a 2013 molestation and assault case last September.

Pathanmajra had been on the run since September 2, a day after the FIR was registered against him. A police team from Punjab had manged to trace Pathanmajra to his relative’s residence at Dabri village in Haryana’s Karnal. Pathanmajra, however, managed to escape from police custody amid allegations that gunshots were fired and stones were pelted by his supporters. Pathanmajra denied the police claim and said he fled after learning that he would be killed in a “fake encounter”.