Punjab Police on Sunday arrested AAP MLA Naresh Yadav who was booked in connection with the alleged desecration of Quran in Malerkotla on June 24.
A team of police was sent to Delhi to arrest the AAP MLA earlier in the day, Punjab Police, IG (Patiala Zone), Paramraj Singh Umra Nangal said.
Yadav will be produced before a magistrate where Punjab police will seek his transit remand to take him back to the state.
Tension had gripped the Muslim-majority town after the recovery of torn pages of the Quran outside a cemetery on Khanna Road during the holy month of Ramadan.
Yadav was booked under relevant sections of the IPC after one of the accused, Vijay Kumar, arrested in connection with the incident, claimed he had done it at the behest of the AAP MLA.
The Punjab police has already questioned the AAP MLA twice in connection with the incident.
The MLA was booked under various sections of IPC including 109 (punishment for abatement if the act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment) and 153A (promoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth etc and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony).
Police had claimed that the accused Vijay had even met the MLA before the incident and calls were also exchanged between them.
The Mehrauli MLA and his party have denied the charges and alleged it was a "political conspiracy" to malign the party's image ahead of Assembly polls in Punjab
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