Rampur. One of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party, Mohammad Azam Khan, has been convicted by the court of Rampur for making inflammatory speeches. Samajwadi Party MLA from Rampur Sadar Azam Khan was accused of using abusive language during the Lok Sabha elections 2019. Azam Khan has been found guilty of three sections in the hate speech case.
Azam Khan in custody
One of the founding members of the Samajwadi Party, Mohammad Azam Khan, has been convicted by the court of Rampur for making inflammatory speeches. Samajwadi Party MLA from Rampur Sadar Azam Khan was accused of using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Lok Sabha elections 2019. At present, the court has directed Azam Khan to be taken into custody.
maximum imprisonment of three years
Section 153A provides for maximum imprisonment of three years and fine if convicted in the inflammatory speech case. During this, Azam Khan appealed to a particular class to vote in the name of religion. With these allegations, an FIR was registered against Azam Khan on behalf of Anil Kumar Chauhan, in-charge of the video observation team. The police completed the investigation and filed the charge sheet in the court.
This case of provocative speech is related to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections
This case of inflammatory speech against Azam Khan is related to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Azam Khan was contesting the Lok Sabha elections. There, many cases of violation of the code of conduct were registered against him during the election campaign. In this one case happened in Milak Kotwali. In this, he is accused of abusing people sitting on constitutional posts and the then District Magistrate. Threatened and tried to incite riots.
The hearing of this case against Azam Khan was going on in the MP-MLA Special Court (Magistrate’s Trial). The court had fixed October 27 for the verdict. Azam Khan reached the court today and on the instructions of the court, he has been taken into custody in the court itself. Samajwadi Party’s strong leader Azam Khan was found guilty by the MP / MLA Court in Rampur on Thursday after completing the hearing in the inflammatory speech case against the party’s national general secretary. After the completion of the process of testimony in this case, the court heard the arguments of the advocates of both the sides in the matter of provocative speech.
Crisis on the legislature of SP MLA Azam Khan
Azam Khan has been convicted under three sections in the inflammatory speech case. He will be sentenced to a minimum of three years’ imprisonment. If he is sentenced to imprisonment, then his membership of the assembly will also go away. Azam Khan was seriously accused of making inflammatory speeches against PM Modi and the DM of Rampur in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. On 7 April 2019, Azam Khan used abusive language during his speech against PM Modi and the then DM Anjaneya Kumar Singh.