[New Delhi] AAP’s Arrested MLA Mahinder Yadav Gets Bail in Rioting+Assault Case He was sent to police custody yesterday
AAP MLA Mahinder Yadav was arrested for allegedly rioting and assaulting a public servant during a protest seeking action against an alleged sexual offender, was today granted bail by a Delhi court.
Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh, who had yesterday sent Yadav to police custody for a day, released the legislator on bail on furnishing of a personal bond of Rs 20,000 and a surety of the like amount.
The MLA from Vikaspuri in West Delhi, along with four others, was arrested yesterday by the police.
The court had yesterday granted bail to four other accused – Rupesh Katyani, Devender Kumar, Roshan Kumar and Shailesh Kumar – who were also arrested in the case.
Advocate Kapil Sharma and Sanjeev Kumar, who appeared for Katyani, had said the four were released on furnishing of a personal bond of Rs 20,000 each and a surety of like amount.
According to the police, Yadav had led a violent protest on the evening of January 28 in Nihal Vihar area in West Delhi following sexual assault on a three-year-old girl. A mob had attacked public vehicles and tried to set one of them on fire.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Southwest) Dependra Pathak had already claimed that the alleged culprit was arrested much before the protest.
Yadav is the sixth AAP legislator to be arrested since the Arvind Kejriwal government came to power in Delhi.
Earlier, [1]Akhilesh Tripathi[2]Somnath Bharti[3]Commando Surinder Singh[4]Manoj Kumar [5] former law minister Jitender Singh Tomar were arrested on various charges.
“A case was registered on the night of January 28 and the MLA was arrested on charges of rioting, arson, assault on public servant, wrongful restraint and damage to public property,”