The revenue tax division on Wednesday morning raided a number of premises linked to Samajwadi Party chief Azam Khan. Raids are ongoing in Lucknow, Rampur, Meertut, Ghaziabad, Saharanpur and Sitapur. According to stories, the IT raids are in reference to the Al Jauhar Trust. At least 30 premises have been searched by the revenue tax officers on Wednesday in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The raids have been a part of a tax evasion probe in opposition to Azam Khan.

Regency Public School and Regency Institute of Management & Technology in UP’s Sitapur was raided as a part of the company’s motion in opposition to Samajwadi Party chief Azam Khan. Advocate Mushtaq Ahmed Siddiqui’s residence in Lucknow got here on IT radar on Wednesday in reference to the identical case.

“It seems that those sitting in Delhi are taking these measures out of desperation. At the behest of Uttar Pradesh Govt, hundreds of false cases were filed against Azam Khan…As far as Income Tax raids are concerned, I don’t think such an action should take place at the residence of an honest man like him. He doesn’t have anything of his own, there is something pertaining to the University and it is public…If people stoop to such petty levels in politics, it will not be right for anyone.” Samajwadi MP Ram Gopal Yadav stated.

Former Cabinet minister Azam Khan is the top of the Al Jauhar Trust. Early this yr, the UP authorities cancelled a lease for a 3.24 acre plot in Rampur given to the Trust to arrange[ a research institute. The lease for this plot was signed in 2013-14 for ₹100 a year for more than 30 years. It was cancelled by the government on allegations of irregularities. The research institute was never built.