Relief For Samajwadi Party's Azam Khan, UP Court Revokes A Guilty Verdict
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The Rampur court overturned the verdict of a lower court which had found the Samajwadi leader guilty of hate speech last year.
Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan was today acquitted by an Uttar Pradesh court in a 2019 hate speech case. The Rampur court overturned the verdict of a lower court which had found the Samajwadi leader guilty last year of of hate speech targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
The Samajwadi leader had accused the Prime Minister of creating an atmosphere in the country in which Muslims found it difficult to exist.
Following the 2022 verdict, Khan was disqualified as an MLA.
A government counsel in the case said the special court accepted the appeal filed against Khan's sentence.
