Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan. Filee
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The Allahabad High Court on Thursday (September 18, 2025) granted bail to senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister Azam Khan in an alleged case of land encroachment.
This was the third bail given to the SP leader by the High Court in the past fortnight.
Justice Sameer Jain granted bail to Mr. Khan in a case related to alleged encroachment of the Quality Bar property in Rampur.
Mr. Khan had approached the High Court for bail in this case after a local MP/MLA court has rejected his bail in May this year.
The matter pertains to an FIR lodged in Rampur in 2019 in which the victim, Gagan Arora, had alleged that his land had been forcefully grabbed. Initially, Mr. Khan was not named in the case, but the Rampur police, in 2024, added his name as an accused in this case and filed a chargesheet against him in January 2025.
Seeking bail, the SP leader had submitted in the court that the property was legally allotted to his wife Tazeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam Khan.
Ms. Fatima was already out on bail in the said case.
Sources in the SP said that Mr. Khan had obtained bail in almost all the cases against him and may walk out of jail soon.
The police in Rampur, however, said that he was yet to procure bail in a five-year-old land-grabbing case in which the court has asked him to appear in person, next week.
Published – September 18, 2025 07:41 pm IST
