2016 Quran desecration case: AAP MLA Naresh Yadav, another convict exchanged calls, SMSes before sacrilege, finds court
Hindustan TimesTelephonic conversation, SMSes and confession by Vijay Kumar, who was held guilty by a lower court, led to the conviction and arrest of Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Delhi’s Mehrauli Naresh Yadav in the 2016 Quran desecration case. Aam Aadmi Party MLA from Delhi’s Mehrauli Naresh Yadav coming out of the court on Thursday. According to the court’s judgment, there were eight text messages and three telephonic conversations between Yadav and Vijay Kumar between June 16 and June 23, 2016. “The court is of the considered view that the occurrence in question occurred on 24.06.2016, whereas the aforesaid exchange of telephonic calls and messages between ‘the appellant/convict Vijay Kumar and the respondent/accused Naresh Yadav took place on 20.06.2016 and 23.06.2016 soon before the sacrilege on 24.06.2016, which clearly established and proved on record that Yadav and Vijay Kumar were in constant touch with each other just before the incident,” reads the judgment passed by additional district and sessions judge Parminder Singh Grewal.