Minority affairs minister Azam Khan has slammed the principal secretary law of plotting to humiliate him in the Supreme Court. Azam Khan said that the law department of UP does not considers him as the part of the government.
The Supreme Court is hearing a petition on an incident that took place on July 29, when a family from Noida was stopped on the highway near Bulandshahr by an armed gang of robbers. The woman and her 14-year-old daughter were dragged to the fields and gang raped.
Questioning the conduct of the principal secretary law Azam Khan asked `` after all why the advocates representing the state government in the apex court in Bulandshahar gang rape case on September 27 had told the apex court they were not authorized to plead on behalf of Azam Khan’’.
In a statement issued here on Friday Azam Khan accused the principal secretary, law of inflicting a huge damage to his image and credibility through the media’’. Azam Khan said ``the conduct of the law department has proved that they do not consider me as the part of the state government’’.
Azam Khan issued the angry statement as a letter was served to him by the law department informing him that a senior M R Shamshad has been engaged by the state government to plead his case in the Supreme Court. Azam Khan said ``I am competent to pursue my case in the Supreme court and senior Supreme Court lawyer Kapil Sibbal has given his consent to take up his case in the Supreme Court’’.
The Supreme Court on September 27 had directed the CBI to send a notice to UP minister Azam Khan, who has been asked to furnish an explanation for calling the gang rape of a woman and her minor daughter near Bulandshahr in July a “political conspiracy”. A bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Uday U lalit said that Azam Khan had neither “entered appearance” through his lawyer in the matter nor has filed any response to the notice issued to him on August 29.
The Supreme court on September 27 had said that ``our considered view, respondent Azam Khan should have entered appearance as there are direct allegations against him in the writ petition…we direct the Central Bureau of Investigation to serve a copy of the writ petition on respondent no. 2, forthwith,”.