Allahabad High Court denied Samajwadi Party MP Ziaur Rahman Barq's plea to quash an FIR against him in the Sambhal violence case.

The Allahabad High Court has stayed the arrest of Samajwadi Party MP Ziaur Rahman Barq in connection with the violence in Sambhal district. The court refused to quash the FIR and instructed Barq to cooperate with the investigation,

The High Court has rejected a plea by the Samajwadi Party MP, Zia-Ur-Rehman Barq to quash an FIR against him for his role in the violence in Sambhal that occurred on November 24. The violence had occurred during a court-ordered survey of the Jama Masjid of Sambhal. Barq is accused of having incited the violence which left four people dead.

The Allahabad High Court directed the police not to arrest the Samajwadi Party leader, asked him to cooperate in the investigation.

The Allahabad high court has stayed the arrest of SP MP Ziaur Rahman Barq, implicated in the violence during a survey of Shahi Jama Masjid in Sambhal, UP. The court has allowed the investigation to continue and instructed Barq to cooperate with the authorities.

The high court developments came a day after the Chandausi court-appointed commissioner Ramesh Singh Raghav submitted a survey report of the masjid in a sealed packet to the office of Aditya Singh, the civil judge (senior division),

In its order, the court said the probe against Barq would continue and asked the member of Parliament to cooperate with the investigators

The Allahabad High Court on Friday (January 3, 2025) stayed the arrest of Samajwadi Party MP Ziaur Rahman Barq in connection with violence that broke in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal during a survey of Shahi Jama Masjid mosque.

Samajwadi Party MP Ziaur Rahman Burke has suffered a major setback in the violence that took place during the survey in Sambhal's Shahi Jama Masjid on November 24 when Allahabad High Court refused to quash an FIR registered against him.