Rampur: In more trouble for Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, the Uttar Pradesh Police has registered a case against him for allegedly making objectionable remarks during the campaign for the upcoming Rampur assembly bypoll in Uttar Pradesh. According to reports, a case has been registered against the influential SP leader on the basis of a police complaint lodged by a woman named Shahnaz Begum. According to Anuj Kumar Chowdhary, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Rampur, the complainant had presented an audio clip of Azam Khan’s controversial speech during a public meeting at Shutakhana.
Rampur police has also started investigating the matter. The woman in her police complaint has alleged that Azam Khan said, “I was a minister in the last four governments and if I used power like this, unborn children would ask their mothers whether she had given permission to be born.”
A video of Azam Khan’s controversial speech was also widely shared by several Twitter handles, which drew sharp reactions from netizens. Acting on the woman’s complaint, the Rampur police registered a case against the SP leader under sections 394(B), 354A, 353(A), 504, 505(2), 509 and 125 of the Representation of the People Act of the Indian Penal Code. Is. act.
Azam Khan, the Muslim face of the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, made the remarks reportedly while campaigning in support of party candidate Aseem Raja in the upcoming bypoll to the Rampur assembly seat.
The senior police officer also told reporters that Khan’s highly insensitive statement had angered many women in the area. Azam Khan recently accused the Rampur administration and the local police of harassing his family and supporters at the behest of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh – a charge the state police have vehemently denied.
The Rampur assembly seat fell vacant after the Rampur district court sentenced Azam Khan to three years in jail in a 2019 hate speech case. He eventually lost his assembly membership as his jail term exceeded two years.
In Rampur, polling will be held on December 5 for the Mainpuri seat, which fell vacant after the death of SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on October 10. On October 27 this year, the Samajwadi Party leader and two other accused were sentenced to three years in prison. A fine of Rs 2,000 was imposed in a hate speech case filed against him over his comments against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
However, he was later granted bail and given a week to appeal against the sentence.