AAP MLA Naresh Yadav granted bail in sacrilege case

Sangrur, July 30

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Yadav was on Saturday granted bail by a local court here in connection with the alleged sacrilege incident in Malerkotla on June 24.

“Yadav has been granted bail by the court of Additional District and Sessions Judge AS Virk in Sangrur,” AAP leader and head of party’s legal cell Himmat Singh Shergill said.

On July 25, the Mehrauli MLA was sent to police custody for two days by a Malerkotla court. On July 27, the AAP MLA was sent to judicial custody.

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Accusing the state government of wrongly framing Yadav, Shergill, who is Yadav’s counsel, alleged, “There is no evidence with the police to link Yadav with the Malerkotla sacrilege case. Police have failed to find anything objectionable against Yadav. Police had done this at the behest of the Badal government.”

Punjab Police on July 24 had arrested Yadav from Delhi in connection with the alleged sacrilege incident in Malerkotla after one of the accused arrested in connection with the case claimed that he had acted at the behest of the AAP MLA.

Yadav had described the police action against him as a “conspiracy”.

Police had claimed that Vijay had met the MLA before the incident and calls were also exchanged between them. The Mehrauli MLA and his party had denied the charges alleging it was a “political conspiracy” to malign the AAP’s image ahead of the Assembly polls in Punjab. PTI