Azam Khan is lodged in jail in connection with a number of cases of theft, criminal intimidation, illegal encroachment among others.
Azam Khan is languishing in the Sitapur jail and had won from Rampur Sadar seat for the 10th time in the recently concluded Assembly polls. He quit the Lok Sabha membership from Rampur to remain an MLA.
According to sources, Azam Khan has been upset over the fact that Akhilesh did not visit him in Sitapur jail-except once-- where he is lodged since February 2020.
Khan is currently lodged in Sitapur jail in over 100 cases pertaining to theft, criminal intimidation, fraud and encroachment.
More than 200 cases have been registered against Azam Khan and his family. A number of cases have been registered against Azam Khan, most of which are about land encroachment by Mohammad Ali Jauhar University.
Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is likely to resign as an MLA, sources told India TV on Saturday. Akhilesh is a Lok Sabha MP from Azamgarh. He won the Assembly election from the Karhal Assembly seat in Mainpuri district in the just concluded polls in Uttar Pradesh.
This time, while the SP fielded much smaller number of Muslim candidates -- 64 -- primarily in an attempt to shed the tag of its MY (Muslim - Yadav) combination being its core constituency, the BSP fielded 88 Muslims while the Congress fielded another 75.
CM Yogi Adityanath said that Akhilesh Yadav should understand that cases against Azam Khan pertain to courts and not state governments.
A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara Rao and BR Gavai, however, granted liberty to Khan to approach the concerned court and request for expeditious disposal of bail pleas. How can you file 32 petitions to seek bail? Don't bring politics in court, the bench said.
The team of India TV's election special show 'Yeh Public Hai Sab Jaanti Hai' reached Rampur and tried to gauge the mood of voters in Rampur, Samajwadi Party Azam Khan's stronghold region.
Azam Khan has been lodged in Sitapur jail since February 2020 last year as many cases registered against him.
The Uttar Pradesh government has taken over the land of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan's Mohammad Ali Jauhar University in Rampur.
Azam Khan, his son and wife Tanzeen Fatima were sent to jail in February last year following multiple cases of theft, fraud and forgery that were lodged against them. Tanzeen Fatima was released on bail in December 2020
Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Khan were discharged from a hospital on Tuesday after recovering from COVID-19 and are being taken to the Sitapur district jail where they were lodged in various cases before being hospitalised, officials said.
The father-son duo was tested positive for COVID-19 on April 30. Azam Khan's health suddenly deteriorated on May 9 following which he along with his son was sent to Lucknow by an ambulance.
The condition of senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan is critical yet under control, said a Lucknow hospital in a statement on Monday.
Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and been shifted from the Sitapur jail to a private hospital in Lucknow for Covid-19 treatment.
Tanzeen Fatima, who walked out of jail late on Monday night, said that she had been a professor in a government college and suddenly she was branded as a criminal.
With 11 more cases slapped on Samajwadi Party MP Mohd Azam Khan, the tally of cases he is facing has reached 100.
Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is admitted to the Medanta hospital in Gurugram after testing Covid positive while MP Mohd Azam Khan is still in jail.
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