The Election Commission had announced that polling for 11 Assembly seats in UP mostly belonging to MLAs who had won the Lok Sabha polls and resigned as members of state assembly will be held on October 21.

Khan will now not be arrested in these 29 cases lodged against him in Rampur by farmers, who alleged that he had usurped their land for the Maulana Jauhar University.

The notices were put up by officials from Ganj police station on the main gate of Khan's residence.

All cases lodged against Rampur MP Azam Khan would be withdrawn if the Samajwadi Party comes to power, its president Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday, drawing a sharp retort from Union minister Santosh Gangwar, who termed the assertion an "unrestrained gossip".

After being accused of stealing land, books, statues and buffaloes, now Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan has been booked for stealing goats. An FIR against him has been lodged on a complaint filed in October 2016 by one Naseema Khatoon, 50, a resident of Yateem Khan Sarai Gate, Rampur Public Gate.

An FIR against him has been lodged on a complaint filed in October 2016 by one Naseema Khatoon, 50, a resident of Yateem Khan Sarai Gate, Rampur Public Gate.

The notice has been issued to Azam Khan's wife Tazeen Fatima, who is also Rajya Sabha MP and two of their sons - Abdullah Azam Khan and Adeeb Azam Khan under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) over land encroachment.  

The Uttar Pradesh Police has lodged an FIR against Samajwadi Party leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan's wife Tajeen Fatima for electricity theft in a resort.

Coming out in support of Khan, the SP patriarch said at a press conference here that, "Injustice is being meted out to Khan and SP workers will launch a protest against it".

Superintendent of Police, Rampur, Ajay Pal Sharma said that Nikhat Aflaq is the treasurer of the Jauhar Trust and "we needed to question her regarding the complaints filed by farmers about land grabbing by Azam Khan".

The case has been registered against Khan, former Circle Officer Alay Hasan and four others. The FIR also includes 40 unnamed persons.

The senior leader has been named in the FIR along with former circle officer Alay Hasan, Fashahat Shanu, Virendra Goyal and constable Dharmendra for dacoity, conspiracy and forgery.

As the matter came up for hearing, a bench of justices Pritinkar Diwakar and Justice Raj Beer Singh adjourned the hearing on the petition for August 29 on the request of Khan's counsel R K Jain.

The district administration of Rampur, according to sources, was preparing to demolish the boundary wall of the resort "in a day or two".

The UP police are now preparing to open a 'history sheet' of Samajwadi Party MP Mohd Azam Khan and formally declare him a history-sheeter. Azam Khan has 72 cases against him so far.

Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, who has been courting trouble in many forms, posted a video message on social media on the occasion of Eid wishing the people in his parliamentary constituency Rampur in Uttar Pradesh.

Samajwadi Party MP Azam Khan, who was recently made to apologise for his derogatory behaviour towards a presiding officer in the Lok Sabha, was rusticated from the Aligarh Muslim University in 1975 for allegedly misbehaving with a woman.

As many as 27 FIRs have been lodged against Samajwadi Party leader and Lok Sabha MP Azam Khan in the last one month on the allegation that he grabbed farmers' land for his university in Rampur, police said.

Akash Saxena has claimed in his complaint that the Samajwadi Party leader has mentioned different birth dates in education certificates and the passport documents.

Azam Khan has been in news for 26 FIR's registered against him for illegally grabbing the government land or lands of farmers in Rampur. In most of the cases registered against him, there is no record of land dealings and no documents either.