SP leader Azam Khan walks out of jail after 27 months
SITAPUR (UP): Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan walked out of the Sitapur Jail in Uttar Pradesh on Friday morning, a day after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a cheating case.
Khan’s son and MLA Abdullah Azam, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) leader Shivpal Singh Yadav and a large number of supporters welcomed the senior SP leader upon his release after 27 months.
Azam Khan had 88 cases, including that of land grabbing, registered against him. With the Supreme Court granting him interim bail in a cheating case, Khan is now on bail in all the cases he faces.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav welcomed Khan’s release.
“Hearty welcome to senior SP leader and MLA Azam Khan on his release on bail. With this bail decision, the Supreme Court has set new standards of justice. He will certainly be acquitted in all other false cases. Lies have moments, not centuries,” Yadav said in a tweet in Hindi.
Shivpal Singh Yadav posted on Twitter pictures with Khan outside the jail.
The jailor of Sitapur prison, R S Yadav, said the release order was received around 11 pm on Thursday.