Machine theft case: High Court reserves judgment against former cabinet minister in Samajwadi party, Azam Khan:

Rajesh Pandey

The Allahabad High Court on Monday reserved its judgment on a bail application moved by former cabinet minister Azam Khan in a machine theft case.

A criminal case was registered against Azam Khan alleging that he had stolen a road cleaning machine, which Nagar Palika Parishad, Rampur district, purchased. It is further alleged that the said cleaning machine was later recovered from Azam Khan’s Jauhar University of Rampur.

Justice Samit Gopal reserved the judgment after hearing counsel for the applicant – Azam Khan and also the counsel for the state government.

After the state’s government change, one Wakar Ali Khan lodged an FIR in the year 2022 at Kotwali, Rampur against Azam Khan, his son Abdullah Azam Khan and five others. It was alleged in the FIR  that these persons in the year 2014, by misusing his their power had stolen a government road cleaning machine, which was purchased by Nagar Palika Parishad, Rampur. Later, this machine was recovered from the campus of Azam Khan’s Jauhar University. It is alleged that this machine was put in the land of Jauhar University, which the state agency recovered after digging the land.