Bail for Azam Khan in enemy property case, new chargesheet to extend jail stay
India Today
Azam Khan was accused of grabbing enemy property and misappropriating public money running into hundreds of crores. He has been granted bail in this case.
Samajwadi Party MLA Azam Khan has been granted bail by the Allahabad High Court in an enemy property case. The Enemy Property Act deals with properties left behind in India by people who took Pakistani and Chinese citizenship after the wars of 1971 and 1965.
However, he will not step out of the jail in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur, where he is currently lodged in connection with a number of cases, including that of land grabbing, lodged against him in Rampur. Recently, after a complaint in an old case, the police filed a charge sheet against the SP leader in court. On the basis of the charge sheet, the warrant has been sent to Sitapur.
The court had last week reserved its order on Azam Khan’s bail application in the case of grabbing of enemy property for his Mohammad Ali Jauhar University project.
An FIR was lodged against Khan and others for allegedly grabbing enemy property and misappropriating public money running into hundreds of crores. It was also alleged in the FIR that during the partition, one Imamuddin Qureshi went to Pakistan and his land was recorded as enemy property. However, Khan grabbed the 13.842-hectare plot in collusion with others.
The Supreme Court on Friday expressed displeasure over the delay in hearing the MLA’s bail application in a land grabbing case, calling it “a travesty of justice”.
