A particular court docket will on July 15 pronounce its verdict in a 2019 hate speech case against senior Samajwadi Party chief Azam Khan. “The arguments from Khan’s side were completed on Wednesday and MP/MLA magistrate Shobhit Bansal has fixed July 15 for giving its verdict,” Shiv Prakash Pandey, joint director (prosecution), stated.
The case was registered against Khan through the 2019 Lok Sabha basic election for allegedly giving a provocative speech throughout a rally in Dhamora underneath Shahzad Nagar police station space on April 8 that 12 months.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) chief was accused of giving an inflammatory speech concentrating on the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, the then Rampur district election officer and the (*15*) Commission.
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An MP-MLA court docket right here had final 12 months convicted Khan in one other 2019 hate speech case which was registered after he addressed a public assembly in Khatanagaria village of the Milak Kotwali space. It had sentenced him to three years of imprisonment after which he was disqualified from the UP meeting.
In May this 12 months, an MP-MLA classes court docket overturned the three-year sentence awarded to Khan by the decrease court docket, accepting the enchantment filed against the sentence.
(With inputs from PTI)
