The Samajwadi Social gathering’s Sambhal MP Ziaur Rehman Barq was booked by the Uttar Pradesh Police on Thursday for alleged theft of electrical energy at his residence within the Deepa Sarai neighborhood right here.
The parliamentarian was booked underneath Part 135 of the Electrical energy Act, 2003, (theft of energy or unauthorized use of electrical energy).
“On checking the meter of the patron acquired from {the electrical} testing laboratory, it’s clear that electrical energy theft has been performed by bypassing the meter and utilizing electrical energy illegally,” said the FIR lodged on a grievance by an influence division official.
The division inspected the Sambhal MP’s residence on Thursday morning amid heavy safety.
Barq is amongst these booked by the police in reference to the November 24 violence that led to the loss of life of 4 locals in a conflict with safety personnel throughout a court-ordered survey of the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid within the metropolis’s Kot Garvi space.
He has filed a writ petition within the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom, in search of a keep on his arrest, and has additionally sought the quashing of the FIR registered in opposition to him.
Within the writ petition, the MP has pleaded innocence, saying he was wrongly implicated within the matter. In accordance with his counsel, he was not current on the place of the incident, but he was named as accused within the FIR.
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