Former MP of Samajwadi Party Azam Khan has been convicted for passing "derogatory comments" on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and has been sentenced to 2 years jail.
Azam Khan was prosecuted under Section 171 G and Section 505 (1) B and Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act. A case was registered against SP leader Azam Khan at Shahzad Nagar police station in Rampur for giving provocative speech. Azam Khan was accused of making inflammatory speeches during the Lok Sabha elections. This case was registered in the year 2019. Azam Khan was then a Lok Sabha candidate from the SP-BSP alliance.
Earlier, Rampur Additional Superintendent of Police Sansar Singh said they received a letter from the security headquarters in Lucknow, which said there is no need to provide the Y-category security to Khan, a 10-time MLA from Rampur.
In compliance with the order, his security was withdrawn, he added. Singh said under the Y-category security, Khan was given three gunmen and security personnel who were posted at his residence round the clock. All the security personnel (posted with Azam) have been called back to the police Lines in Rampur, he said.
Khan had won the Rampur assembly seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls for a record 10th time. After becoming the MLA, he had resigned from the Lok Sabha. In October 2022, the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Secretariat announced the disqualification of Khan from the House, a day after a court sentenced him to three years in jail in a hate speech case.
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