Rampur district administration takes back 70 hectares of land from university headed by SP leader Azam Khan

The district administration of Rampur has taken away around 70 hectares of land from Mohammad Ali Jauhar University run by Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar Trust, according to ANI.

The trust is headed by senior leader of Samajwadi Party and its MP Azam Khan. He is currently lodged in Sitapur jail.

The decision to take the land back came after Allahabad High Court dismissed a petition against proceedings to take over the university land initiated by the Uttar Pradesh Government for non-adherence to certain conditions on which the land for the institution was granted to the Trust in 2005.


The Tehsil team reached the university on Thursday and evicted the Trust along with the land. The Trust runs the university and Azam Khan is its president, while his wife Tanzeen Fathima is the secretary.

Pramod Kumar, Tehsildar, Sadar, told ANI, "Rampur district administration took back more than 70 hectares of land from Jauhar University yesterday for which an appeal was made in the high court. This appeal was rejected by the high court following which officials came here for possession and interference."

"The Vice-Chancellor was asked to sign the eviction documents but he refused to intervene. So as per the legal procedure, the action of eviction of land was taken in the presence of two witnesses and the police," he added.

(With inputs from ANI)