In another setback to Samajwadi Party (SP) General Secretary Mohammad Azam Khan, a court sentenced him to 10-year imprisonment in the Dungarpur case on Thursday.
Along with the 10-year jail term, the MP-MLA special court judge, Dr Vijay Kumar, imposed a fine of Rs 14 lakh on the SP leader, while another convict in the case, Contractors Barkat Ali, has been awarded seven years of jail term.
On Wednesday, the court declared Azam Khan and contractor Barkat Ali guilty in the case.
The SP leader joined the hearing from Sitapur jail through a video conferencing and Barkat Ali from Rampur jail.
In 2019, homeless people living in Dungarpur Colony in Rampur filed 12 cases against Azam Khan in the Ganj police station under sections about looting, theft, assault, and other charges in the name of vacating the colony.
During the SP regime in 2016, shelter homes were built after the demolition of the houses of the people living in Dungarpur Basti. The affected people alleged that the police, under the SP government, forcibly vacate their houses at the behest of Azam Khan. Their belongings were looted, and houses were demolished.
The verdict has come in three of these Dungarpur cases. Khan was acquitted in two other cases earlier, while in another case, he was sentenced to seven-year imprisonment. Today, the verdict came in the fourth case.
As per the case, one, Abrar Hussain, a resident of Dungarpur, lodged a complaint at the Ganj police station on August 13, 2019, that the then CO Ale Hasan, Inspector Firoz Khan, contractor Barkat Ali, and JE Parvez Alam of C&DS reached the colony in the morning of December 6, 2016 and asked them to vacate the house. Inspector Firoz opened fire at them while looting his washing machine, gold, silver, and Rs 5,000. During the discussions, the name of SP leader Azam Khan was also included. There are also allegations of murderous assault and robbery in this case.