Uttar Pradesh : Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan is acquitted in hate speech case of 2019 on Wednesday.Back then He was awarded 3years in prison by the Rampur court and a consequent disqualification from the UP assembly. The case was filed at the Milak police station in Rampur.He was convicted in the case last year in October for allegedly making derogatory remarks against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Azam Khan thereafter filed an appeal in the MP/MLA court challenging the Rampur court order. The court, after hearing the appeal, declared him innocent of the charges pressed against him.
Interestingly Azam khan faces total 87 cases against him under various charges, all of which were filed after 2017 when Yogi Adityanath became Chief Minister of BJP Government in Uttar Pradesh.
