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PATIALA: The Sangrur district and sessions court on Thursday ordered the dropping of sedition charges against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) legislator from Mehrauli constituency of Delhi, Naresh Yadav, in the Quran sacrilege case of Malerkotla. Yadav was one of the four persons arrested in the case. Among the others was Vinay Kumar, Vijay, Nand Kishore Goldy, and Gaurav. It had led to violence and burning of vehicles by an angry mob. The police had claimed that all three had confessed to the crime, and Vijay had revealed that he wanted to take revenge for Dinanagar and Pathankot terrorist attacks.The court has now remanded the case to the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) of Sangrur for the trial..