September 20, 2024

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Azam Khan had usurped 70 hectares of land illegally, now he should give up each sq. inch of it

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The Uttar Pradesh authorities, underneath the management of Yogi Adityanath, is understood for legislation and order. The folks concerned in vandalism, the encroachment of land, and crime should not spared by the Yogi authorities, it doesn’t matter what their stature and the way highly effective they’re. In its newest motion in opposition to the corruption of excessive profile folks, the Yogi Adityanath administration has launched an order to take again 70 hectares (173 acres) of land owned by Jauhar Trust, headed by former minister Azam Khan and run by his relations. Additional District Government Counsel (Revenue) Ajay Tiwari mentioned that the order was handed by ADM (Administration) Jagdamba Prasad Gupta after the court docket discovered that the Jauhar Trust, headed by Azam Khan, had not adopted the circumstances set by the state authorities throughout the sale of the land in 2005.  “When a person or organisation has to buy more than 12.5 acres of land, then permission has to be sought from the state government. The state government had set some conditions at the time of the sale of this particular land. One of the conditions set by the state government was that the land would be used for charitable work. The court found that it was not being done. Other conditions included that no purchase will be done from people who belong to SC and ST categories and that Gram Samaj land will not be taken over. The UP Revenue Act rules were also being violated by the Trust. The land will now be registered in the name of the government in revenue records,” Tiwari mentioned.Azam Khan was allotted 12.5 acres of land for the Mohammed Ali Jauhar University, however over time the land space underneath the management of the college expanded to 300 acres. Azam Khan-led Al Jauhar Trust invaded the land surrounding the college, be it public or personal. Many households had been pressured to promote land surrounding the college and the land owned by the federal government was transferred to the college illegally. “He (Azam Khan) had also taken over some land which was supposed to be a public road, and there is also some Enemy Property, which has been acquired for the university by the Trust,” Tiwari mentioned, including: “During a probe by Rampur district administration, it was found that the Trust was not following the conditions laid down in 2005. He was asked by the ADM court to present his side which he did not do,” mentioned Tiwari.Read More: After placing Azam Khan behind bars, Yogi takes over his ‘private university’Since February final yr, Azam Khan and his son Abdullah are in jail in a forgery case. Azam Khan’s spouse was granted bail in December final yr in the identical case however the Yogi Administration has saved the corrupt father and son behind the bars since February final yr once they surrendered in a forgery (pretend beginning certificates) case. Azam Khan proposed for a state-owned Urdu University in Rampur in 2004, after the Mulayam Singh Yadav led Samajwadi Party got here to energy. The college was proposed to be named after Mohammad Ali Jauhar, a Muslim chief who is understood for main the Khilafat motion.Azam Khan had put up a situation that he needs to be made lifelong chancellor of the college, but the then Governor of Uttar Pradesh, T V Rajeshwar, didn’t approve the invoice. The UPA-ruled central authorities additionally opposed the concept of Azam Khan being the lifelong chancellor of a state-owned college; nevertheless, Khan didn’t surrender.The Samajwadi Party misplaced energy within the state to Mayawati led BSP in 2007. The new authorities was not beneficial to Azam Khan, who needed personal management over the college, however was utilizing public land to construct it.Azam Khan dropped the concept of college after the Mayawati authorities got here to energy and as a substitute constructed an engineering faculty named Jauhar College of Engineering and Technology. For the following few years, the engineering faculty was being run from the varsity campus and the concept of the general public college went into limbo.But, in 2012, Samajwadi Party was elected again to energy with an enormous majority and the now Azam Khan, who noticed himself as quantity two within the authorities after Akhilesh Yadav, dropped the concept of state-owned varsity and constructed a fully-fledged personal college on public land.The varsity was inaugurated by Mulayam Singh Yadav, the patriarch of Samajwadi Party, in 2012, just some months after the social gathering got here to energy. In the inauguration perform, the then CM and Mulayam Singh Yadav heaped reward for Azam Khan and hailed him as the brand new messiah of Muslim group.Azam Khan was Urban Development and Minority Affairs Minister within the Akhilesh Yadav authorities, and the college flourished for the following 5 years underneath his management. Several land seize instances by the personal, in addition to, public authorities had been filed in opposition to the institute’s administration throughout the Mayawati authorities and Akhilesh Yadav authorities, however no motion was taken.Read More: SP chief Azam Khan’s title would possibly determine as ‘land mafia’ on UP authorities portalThe college colleges are all named after Islamists and secular icons with the Paramedical Sciences division named Mother Teresa Institute of Paramedical Science, humanities division named Mulayam Singh Faculty of Humanities and so forth.Azam Khan simply transformed a college constructed on public land into a non-public fiefdom and obtained minority establishment standing for the varsity, and due to this fact, reserved 50 per cent seats for the scholars of the Muslim group.The college was in headlines all through the tenure of Akhilesh Yadav, as crores of rupees had been spent on promoting. For 5 years, the college was a case research of blatant abuse of energy, graft, abuse of rule of legislation, and energy of Azam Khan.Since the Yogi authorities got here to energy in 2017, the report is being set straight by the administration. A number of weeks in the past Yogi Adityanath administration ran JCB on the constructing constructed on public land, to assemble a street. And now, Yogi is all set to take over the unlawful college land and Azam Khan, who’s in jail in a pretend beginning certificates case, couldn’t do something. Karma has accomplished a full circle in Azam Khan’s case.