India, April 12 -- LUCKNOW The three-member judicial commission, constituted to probe the November 2024 Sambhal violence, has directed Samajwadi Party MP from Sambhal, Zia-ur-Rahman Barq, to appear before it in the state capital on April 16 to record his statements in the ongoing probe into the incident that claimed five lives.

Former high court judge Justice DK Arora, former chief secretary Amit Mohan Prasad and ex-DGP Arvind Kumar Jain are members of the judicial commission which was constituted by the state government on November 28, 2024.

"We have asked the Sambhal MP to appear before the commission on April 16 to record his statements," said former DGP AK Jain, member of the commission, on Friday.

"Media persons have also been ask...