Sambhal MP Ziaur Rahman Barak was booked by the Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday for stealing electricity from his house near Deepa Sarai here.
The MP was booked under Section 135 (theft of electricity or unauthorized use of electricity) of the Electricity Act, 2003.
“When checking the consumer’s meter obtained from the electricity testing laboratory, it is clear that electricity has been stolen by bypassing the meter and using electricity illegally,” said a complaint filed by an official of the Electricity Department.
The department inspected the Sambhal MP’s residence on Thursday morning amid tight security.
Barak is one of those charged by the police in connection with the November 24 violence during a court-ordered survey of the Mughal-era Shahi Jama Masjid in the Kot Garvi area of the city that left four locals dead in clashes with security personnel.
He has filed a writ petition in the Allahabad High Court to stay his arrest and also sought quashing of the FIR registered against him.
In the writ petition, the MP has claimed that he is innocent saying that he was falsely implicated. According to his lawyer, he was not present at the spot, but he was named as an accused in the FIR.
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