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SP leader Azam Khan released from prison

ByPress Trust of India, Sitapur
May 21, 2022 12:07 AM IST

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan walked out of the Sitapur Jail in Uttar Pradesh on Friday morning, a day after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a cheating case.

Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan walked out of the Sitapur Jail in Uttar Pradesh on Friday morning, a day after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a cheating case.

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan being welcomed by supporters after his release from Sitapur Jail, in Rampur, on Friday. (PTI)
Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan being welcomed by supporters after his release from Sitapur Jail, in Rampur, on Friday. (PTI)

Khan’s son and MLA Abdullah Azam, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) leader Shivpal Singh Yadav and a large number of supporters welcomed the senior SP leader upon his release after 27 months.

Azam Khan had 88 cases, including that of land grabbing, registered against him. With the Supreme Court granting him interim bail in a cheating case, Khan is now on bail in all the cases he faces.

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav welcomed Khan’s release.”Hearty welcome to senior SP leader and MLA Azam Khan on his release on bail. With this bail decision, the Supreme Court has set new standards of justice. He will certainly be acquitted in all other false cases. Lies have moments, not centuries,” Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.

Shivpal Singh Yadav posted on Twitter pictures with Khan outside the jail.The jailor of Sitapur prison, R S Yadav, said the release order was received around 11 pm on Thursday and after following all procedures, Khan was released around 8 am on Friday.A Supreme Court bench, headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao, directed Khan to file for regular bail within two weeks and asked the trial court to decide it on merits without being influenced by any of the observations of the top court.

The Uttar Pradesh government had earlier opposed Khan’s bail plea and termed him a “land grabber” and a “habitual offender”.

The apex court on May 17 had reserved its order after hearing the parties. It had earlier expressed displeasure over the delay in hearing the bail application of Khan, saying this is a travesty of justice.

After his release from jail in the morning, Khan visited the house of the Samajwadi Party’s ex-MLA Anoop Gupta before leaving for his native Rampur. Gupta had been in constant touch with Khan ever since he was lodged in Sitapur Jail. During his 45-minute stay at Gupta’s house, Khan had breakfast and met his supporters and well-wishers who had come here from different places.

“I was instructed by my party chief Akhilesh Yadav to take care of Azam Khan, his wife and son the day when they came to Sitapur jail. As my house is quite close to the jail this also gave me a chance to serve my party leader on the instructions of my party chief,” Anoop Gupta told PTI.”Azam Khan was quite close to my father and four-time Samajwadi Party MLA late Om Prakash Gupta. Also, I was not well and got discharged from a hospital just a couple of days ago. So, Azam Khan was keen to see me and inquire about my health. It was a general meeting and had nothing to do with politics,” he said.

Azam Khan was accompanied by his two sons Adib and Abdullah, party leader Ashu Malik and Bilhari MLA Mohammad Faheem. He had stuffed paratha with tea for breakfast, Gupta said.

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