Azam Khan strikes SC, says his ‘University is being demolished as bail situation’ 

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party MLA Azam Khan Monday moved the Supreme Court difficult a bail situation imposed by the Allahabad High Court which he claimed is for demolishing of buildings of his Jauhar University allegedly constructed by grabbing of enemy property.

A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Bela M Trivedi was instructed by advocate Nizam Pasha that the High Court has ordered the “demolition” of the University as a situation for interim bail and now the district administration seeks to execute the order.

“Please list this plea for urgent hearing”, Pasha urged the courtroom.

The bench mentioned how can a University be demolished as a bail situation and requested Pasha to say the matter earlier than mentioning the registrar.

On May 10, the High Court whereas granting him interim bail had directed the Rampur district Justice of the Peace to take possession of the enemy property connected to the campus of Jauhar University by June 30, 2022, and lift a boundary wall with barbed wire round it.

It had mentioned that on completion of the talked about train of taking the possession of the land to the satisfaction of the DM, Rampur, the interim bail of Azam Khan shall be transformed into common bail.

At the outset, Pasha mentioned that standing of the land on which the University is constructed is the subject material of a writ petition within the High Court between the Waqf Board and the custodian of the land wherein a keep has been ordered.

He mentioned that regardless of this the only decide of the High Court has put handover of the land to the custodian as a situation of the bail.

Pasha identified that now the district administration has recognized that land as a parcel of land underlying between two buildings of the University and has issued discover to vacate the buildings in order that they are often demolished in an effort to adjust to the bail order.

The bench requested Pasha to say it earlier than the registrar for pressing itemizing.

On May 19, the highest courtroom whereas exercising its powers underneath Article 142 of the Constitution granted Khan (73) interim bail in an alleged dishonest case paving method for his launch from jail.

On May 10, the Allahabad High Court had granted him interim bail in a case associated to the alleged grabbing of enemy property for his Jauhar University mission on the situation that he has to return your entire enemy property to paramilitary forces and has to furnish a private bond of Rs 1 lakh and two sureties of like quantity.

Khan who’s a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Rampur Sadar constituency was lodged within the Sitapur jail of the State for greater than two years.

An FIR was lodged at Azem Nagar police station in Rampur towards Khan and others in 2019 for alleged grabbing of enemy property and misappropriation of public cash of greater than a whole bunch of crores of rupees.

It was alleged within the FIR that in partition one Imamuddin Qureshi went to Pakistan and his land was recorded as enemy property, however Khan in collusion with others grabbed the 13.842-hectare plot.

On May 6, the highest courtroom mentioned it’s a “travesty of justice” that the High Court has not delivered its verdict on the bail plea regardless of reserving the order final December within the grabbing of enemy property case.

The prime courtroom had famous that Khan has been granted bail in 86 out of 87 circumstances lodged towards him and noticed that it’s maintaining the plea of Khan pending until the High Court delivered its order on his bail.

The excessive courtroom on December 4, 2021, had reserved its determination.

However, the state authorities later submitted an utility and sought permission to current some new info by way of recent affidavits, which had been filed on May 5.

The High Court had then on May 10 delivered its verdict within the case.