A Badun court rejected the closeure report by the police in a case f registered against snior cabinet minister Azam Khan, and ordered to ceed with the trial. Khan is second minister of Akhilesh Yadav cabinet, after Raghuraj Pratap Singh ‘ Raja Bhaiya’, to have been handed out such treatment by the court.
Earlier a lucknow court had rejected closure report filed by CBI into te murder of a Deputy SP in Pratapgarh.
As per reports, Chief Judicial Magistrate, Baduan, Raj Kishore rehected the policeclean chit to Azam Khan in a case of sedition filed by petitioner Ujjawal Gupta. The CJM has fixed October 22 as the next date of hearing, when the petitioner would record his statement. This is the second time that the police clean chit to the Urban Development and Minority Welfare minister has been rejected by the court.
On December 21, 2010, Azam Khan had issued a controversial statement over Kashmir in Badaun. The following day, the petitioner tried to register a complaint but when the police refused to entertain, he approached the court. The court directed the police to lodge an FIR against Khan and investigate the matter on January 18, 2011.
Subsequently, the local police gave a clean chit to the minister and filed a final report in the court on May 2013. But taking exceptions, the Court rejected it and ordered the police to re-investigate on May 24. The court in its order on June 11 last said that though two years have passed after it rejected the final report filed by police, it has not been informed of the result of the probe into the case. On Tuesday, the court once again rejected the police giving clean chit to the minister.