AAP MLA Naresh Yadav: A court in Punjab’s Malerkotla district on Saturday arrested him from Delhi’s Mehrauli. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Yadav sentenced to two years in jail in the 2016 Quran insult case.
The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Parminder Singh Grewal on Friday convicted Yadav in this case and pronounced the verdict on Saturday. A fine of Rs 11,000 was also imposed on Yadav, who was present in the court at the time of sentencing.
The court upheld the two-year sentence of two other persons (Vijay Kumar and Gaurav Kumar). Another accused Nand Kishore has been acquitted by the subordinate court.
Yadav has been charged under Indian Penal Code sections 295A (intentional malicious act intended to outrage religious feelings by insulting any class of religion or religious belief), 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion) of the Indian Penal Code. They went and were convicted. Section 120B (criminal conspiracy).
Yadav was acquitted by a trial court in March 2021 in a defamation case. After this, complainant Muhammad Ashraf filed an appeal against his acquittal. Police had earlier registered a case against Vijay, Gaurav and Kishore, but later AAP MLA Yadav was arrested in this case.
