Chandigarh: A courtroom in Punjab’s Malerkotla district on Saturday awarded a two-year sentence to AAP MLA from Delhi’s Mehrauli Naresh Yadav in a 2016 case of desecration of the Quran. The courtroom of further district and classes choose Parminder Singh Grewal convicted Yadav within the case on Friday and pronounced the decision on Saturday. A wonderful of Rs 11,000 was additionally imposed on Yadav who appeared earlier than the courtroom when the sentence was pronounced.
The courtroom upheld the two-year sentence of two others — Vijay Kumar and Gaurav Kumar — and acquittal of one other accused Nand Kishore by a decrease courtroom. Yadav has been convicted below Sections 295A (deliberate and malicious acts, supposed to outrage non secular emotions of any class by insulting its faith or non secular beliefs), 153A (selling enmity between totally different teams on grounds of faith) and 120B (prison conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
Yadav was acquitted within the sacrilege case in March 2021 by a decrease courtroom. Nevertheless, complainant Mohammad Ashraf filed an enchantment towards his acquittal. On June 24, 2016, torn pages of the Quran had been discovered scattered on a street in Malerkotla. This led to violence and burning of autos by an offended mob. 4 individuals, together with the AAP MLA, had been arrested within the case.
Initially, the police had booked Vijay, Gaurav and Kishore. Later, AAP MLA Yadav was arrested within the case.
