Rampur (UP), August 4
As many as 27 FIRs have been lodged against Samajwadi Party leader and Lok Sabha MP Azam Khan in the past one month on the allegation that he grabbed farmers’ land for his university in Rampur, the police said. Khan, who was a Cabinet Minister in Uttar Pradesh during the Akhilesh Yadav-led regime, is the founder and Chancellor of Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, which came into being in 2006.
“Since July 11, more than 24 farmers have approached the police with allegations of encroachment of their land for the university. We have registered 27 FIRs in these cases and investigations are underway,” Superintendent of Police Ajay Pal Sharma said.
Largely, he said, these cases had been registered under Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 447 (criminal trespass), 389 (putting a person in fear of accusation of offence in order to commit extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
“Punishment in these cases could be arrest and imprisonment up to 10 years besides monetary penalty,” the officer said.
Mohammad Ali Jauhar University, with 3,000 students, is spread over 121 hectares. Besides the land grab FIRs, the Rampur Police have filed a criminal case against the university on on a complaint by the principal of 250-year-old Rampur-based Oriental College, earlier known as Madrasa Aliya, saying over 9,000 books had been stolen and taken to Mohammad Ali Jauhar University library. — PTI
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