2016 Forced Eviction Case | Allahabad HC Extends Stay On Passing Of Final Order In Trial Against Azam Khan Till July 15
A complete of 12 FIRs, registered between 2019 and 2020, had been clubbed right into a single trial by the Particular Decide (MP/MLA), Rampur, final yr in August. Fees embody dacoity, home trespass, and prison conspiracy beneath the IPC.
In a major improvement on June 25, a separate bench of Justice Samit Gopal had directed {that a} recent petition filed by Khan and his aide Virendra Goel, in regards to the identical matter, be tagged with the sooner petition filed by the co-accused (wherein the keep on the ultimate order had already been granted).
Nonetheless, given the present keep on the passing of the ultimate judgment within the consolidated trial, the Courtroom had declined to cross any recent interim instructions and ordered that their petition be clubbed with the co-accused’s plea.
Briefly put, of their plea, Khan and Goel have challenged the trial courtroom’s Might 30, 2025, orders that denied their requests to recall the informants within the 12 FIRs (now clubbed right into a single trial) and key prosecution witnesses, together with Zafar Ahmad Farooqui, Chairman of the Sunni Central Waqf Board, and to supply exculpatory videographic proof of the alleged October 15, 2016, eviction at Yateem Khana, Waqf No. 157, in Rampur.
The petitioners argue that this footage, acknowledged by Farooqui, might show their absence from the scene, dismantling the prosecution’s claims within the consolidated trial (Particular Case No. 45 of 2020).
Their plea additionally seeks quashing of your complete trial, claiming the identical to be violating their constitutional rights beneath Articles 14, 19, 20, and 21, and branding the proceedings as malicious.
