Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 5: The money laundering case being investigated against Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan has prompted the investigation agency Enforcement Directorate, or ED, to summon Khan’s wife and son for questioning.
Azam Khan (73) represents the Rampur seat for the Samajwadi Party. The ED’s regional office in Lucknow has requested that his wife Tazeen Fatma and son Abdullah Azam Khan, an MLA from the Swar assembly constituency in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, appear this week.
According to them, the investigation agency wants to document their declarations under the criminal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in the case being looked into against Azam Khan.
While he was being held at Sitapur jail, Azam Khan was interrogated by the agency in the case. He is currently free on bail.
After serving 27 months in prison, he was finally freed in May after the Supreme Court granted him temporary freedom after being charged with forgery.
After learning of at least 26 FIRs filed by the state police against Azam Khan in 2019, the investigation agency opened an investigation into him. Among the allegations against him were claims that a university he runs in the Uttar Pradesh district of Rampur was founded on land that had been taken from a “enemy property.”
The Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar Trust, which manages the three Rampur Public School locations, is chaired by Azam Khan.
He formerly held the position of minister of urban development in the Samajwadi Party’s previous administration in Uttar Pradesh, which was led by the state’s then-chief minister Akhilesh Yadav.
