TWO AAP MLAs ARRESTED

New Delhi/Chandigarh, July 24: In a double whammy for AAP, two MLAs of Delhi’s ruling party were on Sunday arrested — one for allegedly trying to mow a woman down and another in a sacrilege incident in Punjab — taking to 11 the number of its legislators held by police in different cases.

The Arvind Kejriwal-headed Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) has 67 legislators in the 70-member Delhi Assembly after it swept to power in February 2015.

Amanatullah Khan was arrested by Delhi police after a woman alleged he tried to mow her down after she visited his residence to raise the issue of power cuts while a Punjab Police team on Sunday night arrested Naresh Yadav, who has been booked in connection with the alleged Malerkotla sacrilege incident on June 24. Both the arrests were made in Delhi. Khan, also the chairman of the Delhi Waqf board, was first detained for questioning and then arrested, a day after he alleged at a press conference the woman was “pressurised” by police into giving a false statement against him.

On July 22, the woman had recorded her statement before the magistrate. — PTI