Navneet Chaturvedi, accused of filing a Punjab Rajya Sabha byelection nomination with forged proposers’ signatures, was produced before a Rupnagar court on Thursday. The Chief Judicial Magistrate granted a seven-day police remand, with the next hearing on October 23. Chaturvedi argued that any action should have been taken in the Punjab Assembly, as he had filed his nomination there and had never visited Rupnagar. Representing himself due to a lawyers’ strike, he appeared in court amid minor scuffles outside between police and journalists, whose mobile phones were temporarily confiscated. Chaturvedi was arrested late Wednesday following a complaint by AAP MLA Dinesh Chadha, who alleged that Chaturvedi forged his signature. A Rupnagar special police team arrested him from Chandigarh’s Sector 3 police station after initial resistance, and he was brought to Rupnagar, medically examined, and lodged at the City Police Station.