AAP’s Yadav gets bail in sacrilege case

Sushil Goyal

Tribune News Service

Sangrur, July 30

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Delhi Naresh Yadav was today granted bail by Additional Sessions Judge Amarjit Singh Virk in the Malerkotla desecration case. He was released from the Sangrur District Jail in the afternoon on furnishing a bail bond of Rs 40,000.

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Coming out of the jail, Naresh Yadav said AAP was afraid of none. “The SAD-BJP government will commit atrocities on AAP leaders and workers for some months more. But the people of Punjab will give a befitting reply to the ruling alliance in the 2017 Assembly elections,” he said. He denied links with Vijay Kumar, the main accused in the sacrilege case. 

Yadav’s counsel Himmat Singh Shergill had filed a bail application in the Sangrur sessions court on July 28 after the court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Malerkotla, dismissed his  bail plea.  Yadav was arrested by the Sangrur police from Delhi on July 24 and produced in the Malerkotla court on July 25. 

While granting bail to Yadav, Additional Sessions Judge Virk said the applicant could not be kept in custody for an indefinite period as his guilt was yet to be proved. “Therefore, without commenting on the merit of the case, the bail plea is allowed.”

Talking to mediapersons, Shergill acussed the Badal government of implicating AAP leaders in false cases as part of a “political conspiracy”. He said the prosecution could not produce any proof against Yadav today.