Punjab Police to produce arrested AAP MLA before court today

July 25, 2016 08:12

AAP MLA Naresh Yadav, who has been arrested in connection with the alleged Malerkotla sacrilege incident on June 24, will be produced in the court today.

Yadav has been booked under relevant sections of the IPC after one of the accused, Vijay Kumar, arrested in connection with the incident, claimed he had done it at the behest of the AAP MLA.

He has been charged with IPC sections 109 (punishment for abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth etc and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony), 295 (injury or defiling place of worship with an intent to insult the religion of any class).

Yadav before his arrest had described the police action against him as a "conspiracy."

"When I had told police that I was available for questioning any time then why I am being arrested," he said, adding that police procured the arrest warrant on the accusations of an "RSS man".

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