Lucknow: In a relief to senior Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan, the Allahabad High Court today refused to accept a prayer for issuing directions for the lodging of an FIR against him over an alleged hate speech.
The Lucknow bench of the court also refused to issue a writ of ‘quo warranto' (right to hold an office or governmental privilege) against him in the matter.
However, the court issued a notice to Azam and sought a reply from him within six weeks on whether, being a state Cabinet Minister, he can hold the office of the Chancellor of Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar University.
A division bench of Justices Devi Prasad Singh and Arvind Kumar Tripathi passed the order on a writ petition filed by two persons seeking a direction in the nature of quo warranto against Azam asking him to explain.
