Azam Khan skips UP Assembly for second consecutive day; SC to listen to his plea difficult bail situation

By PTI

LUCKNOW: Senior Samajwadi Party chief Azam Khan skipped Uttar Pradesh meeting proceedings for a second day in a row on Tuesday amid hypothesis of a rift between him and get together president Akhilesh Yadav.

Khan, who had taken oath at Speaker Satish Mahan’s chamber on Monday, had not attended the proceedings of the home and had left after being sworn in as member of the home even then.

Khan was not too long ago launched on bail from Sitapur Jail the place he was lodged on varied costs, together with that of land grabbing.

When requested whether or not Khan will probably be attending the home, his MLA son Abdullah Azam prevented giving a categorical reply to the media within the morning.

“I am getting delayed for the assembly. You can ask him (Azam) when he comes out,” Abdullah Azam, who had taken oath along with his father on Monday, mentioned.

Khan had on Monday night met Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) founder Shivpal Yadav at his residence and mentioned varied points.

PSPL spokesperson Deepak Mishra instructed PTI, “Yes both the leaders had met on Monday evening.”

He, nevertheless, didn’t expose particulars of the assembly.

Sources counsel that Khan desires his lawyer, Kapil Sibal, to be despatched to Rajya Sabha on an SP ticket.

However, there isn’t any official affirmation on this regard both from Khan’s aspect or from any SP leaders.

Akhilesh Yadav’s get together that had gained 111 seats within the latest state polls can ship three members to the RS after 11 of its seats fall vacant from the state by July.

The technique of elections for the RS seats started on Tuesday.

Sibal, who’s representing Khan within the Supreme Court, was elected to the RS on a Congress ticket from Uttar Pradesh with the assistance of SP in 2016.

Since the Congress, which had fought the newest state election by itself, may handle to win solely two seats, it has no probability to ship him or some other chief of the get together to the higher home of Parliament.

This is the second assembly between Khan and socialist chief Shivpal Yadav in latest days.

Yadav had earlier visited him in Sitapur Jail in March finish and had known as out SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, in addition to Akhilesh Yadav, for not agitating for his launch.

The absence of Khan — the tenth time period MLA from Rampur Sadar seat — from the continuing meeting session is producing a number of hypothesis about his displeasure with the get together president.

Khan has been allotted a seat within the meeting subsequent to Akhilesh Yadav.

Meanwhile, 

The Supreme Court Tuesday mentioned {that a} plea filed by Samajwadi Party MLA Azam Khan difficult a bail situation imposed by the Allahabad High Court, which he claimed is for demolishing part of his Jauhar University allegedly constructed by grabbing of enemy property, can be heard throughout this week.

The matter was talked about earlier than a trip bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Bela M Trivedi.

Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, showing for Khan, mentioned one in all his colleagues had talked about the matter earlier than the apex courtroom and the bench had requested him to say it earlier than the registrar.

“Your lordships said to mention it before the registrar. It was mentioned, but it is not being listed,” Sibal mentioned.

“We will list in the course of this week,” the bench mentioned.

Advocate Nizam Pasha, representing the petitioner, had on Monday talked about the matter for pressing itemizing earlier than the highest courtroom and mentioned the excessive courtroom has ordered “demolition” of the college as a situation for interim bail, and now the district administration seeks to execute the order.

The bench had requested him to say the matter earlier than the mentioning registrar.

On May 10, the excessive courtroom whereas granting 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.

While mentioning the matter on Monday, Pasha had instructed the apex courtroom that the standing of the land, on which the college is constructed, is the subject material of a writ petition within the excessive courtroom between the Waqf Board and the custodian of the land wherein a keep has been ordered.

He had mentioned that regardless of this, the one decide of the excessive courtroom has put handover of land to the custodian as a situation of bail.

He had identified that now, the district administration has recognized that land as a parcel of land underlying between two buildings of the college and has issued discover to vacate the buildings in order that they are often demolished with a purpose to adjust to the bail order.

On May 19, the highest courtroom whereas exercising its powers beneath Article 142 of the Constitution had granted Khan (73) interim bail in an alleged dishonest case paving approach 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 undertaking on the situation that he has to return the complete 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 in opposition to Khan and others in 2019 for alleged grabbing of enemy property and misappropriation of public cash of greater than lots of 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 had mentioned it’s a “travesty of justice” that the excessive courtroom 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 instances lodged in opposition to him and noticed that it’s preserving the plea of Khan pending until the excessive courtroom delivered its order on his bail.

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

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

The excessive courtroom had then on May 10 delivered its verdict within the case.