Rampur: In the hate speech case, Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has been sentenced to two years by the court of Rampur in Uttar Pradesh. Along with this, the court has also imposed a fine of one thousand rupees on Azam. In the year 2019, a case was registered against SP leader Azam Khan at Shahzad Nagar police station in Rampur for making inflammatory speech.
Azam was accused of giving provocative speeches during the Lok Sabha elections, when Azam was the Lok Sabha candidate from the SP-BSP alliance. During the election campaign, Azam Khan had given an objectionable statement against several officers including the Chief Minister and the then District Magistrate in one of his public meetings. Its video also went viral on social media.
Case was registered in Shahzad Nagar police station
After this, taking cognizance of the viral video, ADO Panchayat Anil Chauhan had registered a case against the SP leader in Shahzad Nagar police station. Then the police officers investigated the matter and filed a charge sheet against Azam in the court. However, later in this case Azam got bail from the court.
In this case, all the arguments had been presented by both the sides in the court, just the decision was yet to come. For this, today i.e. July 15, the date was fixed by the court. Earlier in the year 2022, the MP-MLA court of Rampur had sentenced Azam to three years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 25,000.
Assembly membership of Azam’s son Abdullah was canceled
Earlier this year, the assembly membership of Azam’s son Abdullah Azam was also cancelled. Abdullah Azam won the election of MLA from Rampur’s Swar Tanda assembly seat. At the same time, the assembly membership of Azam Khan was canceled in the year 2022 itself.
Recently, while targeting the BJP government of the state, Azam Khan had said that we have built universities and schools. But, people are not tolerating this. People (BJP) are persecuting him. A case has been registered against Azam under Section 171G, Section 505(1)B and Section 125 of the Representation of the People Act.