AAP MlA Mahinder Yadav, who was arrested for allegedly rioting and assaulting a public servant during a protest seeking action against an alleged sexual offender, was granted bail by a city court on Saturday. Metropolitan Magistrate Harvinder Singh, who had sent Yadav to police custody for a day, released the legislator on bail on furnishing of a personal bond of Rs20,000 and a surety of the like amount. The MlA from Vikaspuri in West Delhi, along with four others, was arrested on Saturday.
The court had 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 Rs20,000 each and a surety of like amount. According to 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.
Yadav is the sixth AAP legislator to be arrested since the Kejriwal Government came to power in Delhi.
