Jailed SP leader Azam Khan figures in party’s star campaigners’ list
The inclusion of jailed party leader Mohammad Azam Khan in the list has caught everyone by surprise.
A special MP/MLA court on Monday sentenced Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan to seven years imprisonment in the 2016 Dungarpur incident.
Apart from him, three others were sentenced to five years in jail.
Khan (75) was also fined Rs 5 lakh, while the others will have to pay Rs 2 lakh each.
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The court of Special Judge Vijay Kumar had convicted the Samajwadi Party (SP) leader, former municipal chairman Azhar Ahmed Khan, retired circle officer Aale Hasan and contractor Barkat Ali, on Saturday.
The BJP government in Uttar Pradesh had registered a case against Khan and others in 2019 against forced demolition of a house in Dungarpur in 2016. Khan was accused of criminal conspiracy, while others were accused of serious charges like breaking into the house, assault, intimidation, and robbery.
The case was registered at the Ganj police station under the Indian Penal Code sections 447 (punishment for criminal trespass), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 395 (punishment for dacoity) and 412 (dishonestly receiving property stolen in the commission of a dacoity), police said.
Former SP state secretary Omendra Singh Chauhan along with Zibran Nasir and Farman Nasir were acquitted due to lack of evidence.
SP leader Khan is presently lodged in Sitapur jail, while Azhar Ahmed Khan is in Bijnor jail.
Azam Khan has been convicted in five cases so far. He was also sentenced to seven years imprisonment last year in the fake birth certificate case of his son Abdullah Azam. His wife, former MP Tajin Fatma, and son, former MLA Abdullah Azam, have also been sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the same case. The two are out on bail.
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