Samajwadi Party MP Zia-ul-Rehman has been served a notice regarding the November riots in Sambhal. He is expected to join the investigation on April 8th and has stated he will cooperate with the police. The MP maintains that the allegations against him are baseless and politically motivated. Zia-ul-Rehman criticised the Uttar Pradesh government's claim of safety for Muslims, citing the recent riots in Sambhal.
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00:00News break coming in from Sambhal, Samajwadi Party MP Zia-Ur Rehman has been served a notice.
00:06The Samajwadi Party MP has been served a notice on the Sambhal riots because remember,
00:10the police accused him of being one of the masterminds of the November riots in Sambhal.
00:15Now the Samajwadi Party MP is expected to join the investigation on April 8th and he said very
00:23clearly he will cooperate with the cops and maintains that the allegations against him
00:28are baseless.
00:58Okay, so that's the Samajwadi Party MP reacting to Yogi Adityanath's comments there on Sambhal,
01:09mocking in fact the government, saying very clearly it's visible how safe Muslims are in
01:14Uttar Pradesh considering the riots that broke out in Sambhal. But now the Samajwadi Party MP
01:20has been issued a notice to join the investigation. He's been summoned for April 8th to be a part of
01:26the probe for a statement to be recorded and while all along he's cried foul saying that these
01:31are baseless allegations driven by a political conspiracy, he maintains that he will be a part
01:37of the investigation. He will cooperate with the agencies at this point. Remember, this pertains
01:42to the riots that broke out in Sambhal in November. Arvind Doja is joining us with more details on
01:49this. Arvind, the latest update is that the Sambhal Police has issued a notice to MP Zia-ul-Rehman.
01:57Will Zia-ul-Rehman appear on April 8th?
02:18Zia-ul-Rehman
02:49will
03:02appear on April 8th.
03:06All right, Arvind, thanks very much for joining us with those details.