Rampur police completes probe in 81 felony circumstances towards Azam Khan

Rampur police has finished its investigation in 81 felony circumstances registered towards jailed senior Samajwadi Party chief and native MP Azam Khan for the reason that BJP govt got here to energy within the state in March, 2017. Those circumstances have been lodged on more than a few fees, together with dishonest, felony trespass and land grabbing.

Of the full collection of circumstances, police have filed chargesheet in 79 and a closure document in a single case. In a single case, police discovered that Khan was once wrongly named within the FIR, stated police.

In majority of those circumstances, Khan’s spouse and native MLA Tanzeen Fatima and their son Abdullah Azam Khan are co-accused.

This yr, Rampur police filed chargesheet towards Khan in 11 circumstances of land grabbing lodged at Ganj police station. It’s alleged that houses built on land in Dongarpur space have been demolished on fees of encroachment, stated police. They added that land was once later reportedly used for extension of Mohammad Ali Jauhar College, of which Azam Khan is the founder and Chancellor.

Superintendent of Police, Rampur, Shogun Gautam stated no investigation towards Khan finally is pending within the district. “Of the full 79 chargesheet circumstances, Khan has acquired bail in 75 felony circumstances,” stated Gautam.

He’s but to get bail in 4 circumstances – two of which have been lodged in Azim Nagar police station, one each and every in Ganj and Civil Line police station.

Of the 4 circumstances, two are hooked up with land grabbing, together with that of Enemy assets, one among pretend file and any other case was once filed by way of former Rajya Sabha member Amar Singh who’s now useless.

Singh had accused Khan for allegedly making objectionable remarks towards him all over an interview to a information channel. The case was once lodged on the Gomti Nagar police station in October, 2018 and later its investigation was once transferred to Rampur because the remark was once made there.

4 circumstances towards Azam Khan are lodged out of doors Rampur district. 3 circumstances have been filed in Moradabad and one in Firozabad. “In all of the 4 circumstances, chargesheet has been filed,” stated SP Rampur.

In the meantime, the nine-day bicycle rally introduced by way of Samajwadi Party in enhance of Khan and his circle of relatives reached Lakhimpur Kheri on Wednesday. The target of the rally is to protest towards the alleged vindictive motion towards Khan. It was once rolled out from Rampur by way of Samajwadi Party nationwide president and previous UP leader minister Akhilesh Yadav. On its the 6th day on Wednesday, the bicycle rally started from Shahjahanpur and reached Lakhimpur Kheri. It’s going to lead to Lucknow on March 21.

On February 26 final yr, Khan, his spouse and son had surrendered ahead of an area courtroom of Rampur in reference to a case associated with alleged forgery of Abdullah’s beginning certificates. In December final yr, Fatima acquired bail and were given launched from prison. Khan and Abdullah are nonetheless lodged in Sitapur district prison.

In step with police report, a complete of 41 circumstances have been lodged towards Abdullah and 32 towards Fatima since January final yr.

Police stated ahead of the BJP govt got here to energy, Khan was once booked in 17 circumstances in Rampur. In two circumstances, police filed chargesheet, in six circumstances police filed closure document and 9 circumstances have been withdrawn by way of the then state govt.