Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, who was recently released from jail, alleged that an inspector had threatened him that he can you can get encountered and asked him to go underground.
“When an Inspector can threaten in the jail, ‘go underground, you have several cases against you, you can get encountered,’ then it is difficult to say what my journey is, in the face of such dangers,” Khan said late last night in Rampur.
The senior SP leader walked out of the Sitapur Jail in Uttar Pradesh on May 20 after 27 months, a day after the Supreme Court granted him interim bail in a cheating case.
Khan, a ten-time MLA from Rampur Assembly constituency, had 88 cases, including that of land grabbing, registered against him.
A Supreme Court bench headed by Justice L Nageswara Rao directed Khan to file for regular bail within two weeks and asked the trial court to decide it on merits without being influenced by any of the observations of the top court.
The Uttar Pradesh government had earlier objected to Khan’s bail plea and termed him a “land grabber” and a “habitual offender”.
The top court had earlier expressed discontentment over the delay in hearing the bail application of Khan, saying this was a “travesty of justice”.
Earlier, Samajwadi Party MLA Ravidas Mehrotra has expressed apprehensions that Khan could be killed in jail as he was denied permission to meet the Rampur MP
“Jail administration didn’t allow me to meet Azam Khan and I was told he is unwell and is sleeping. It seems the state is under a kind of undeclared emergency… We have apprehensions that Azam Khan could also be killed in jail,” Mehrotra had said.
The SP MLA had also alleged that Khan was not being treated properly by the jail authorities despite his deteriorating health.
