Azam Khan

The case against Azam Khan was registered at Shahzad Nagar police station in Rampur during the 2019 Lok Sabha election campaign where he made inflammatory remarks against CM Yogi Adityanath, the former DM of Rampur, and other officials.

"The review petitions are accordingly dismissed," a bench of justices Ajay Rastogi and BV Nagarathna said in an order delivered on November 7, 2022.

Supreme Court rejected to hear a plea by Azam Khan in which he had requested to transfer the cases against him out of Uttar Pradesh

The people who reverted to Hinduism said SP leader Azam Khan had forcibly converted them to Islam 12 years ago.

After the results were announced, the Samajwadi candidate blamed the Rampur police for his defeat.

In a speech on December 1, Azam Khan had targeted the police and administration as well as the Election Commission.

SP leader Azam Khan has been found guilty in a 2019 Hate Speech case by a Rampur Court

The Board has seized several waqf properties from Azam Khan and handed them over to Rampur's royal family

BJP has accused polling booths of facilitating fake voting by burqa-clad women during UP elections

Azam Khan has been lodged in Uttar Pradesh's Sitapur jail since February 2020 for a number of cases registered against him.