Zia Ur Rahman Barq: Barq calls Atiq, Mukhtar 'heroes', booked | Bareilly News
Samajwadi Party’s Lok Sabha candidate from Sambhal, Zia ur Rahman Barq, was booked for presenting gangsters-turned-politicians Atiq Ahmad, Mukhtar Ansari, and Md Shahabuddin as 'heroes' and seeking votes at a poll meeting purportedly in the name of their 'sacrifice'. He was booked under IPC sections 171-C, 153-A, and 188 after a complaint by sector magistrate Harishankar Prasad.