Azam Khan, the most senior minister in Akhilesh Yadav’s cabinet, has been found responsible today with the Supreme Court over his remarks about a woman and her teen age daughter who were gang-raped on a major highway in Bulandshahr in July.
Mr Khan, 68, will be sent a notice by the CBI to explain his comments about combining the rape, which took place in Bulandshahr, with a “political conspiracy”, judges said today.
Last month, the CBI’s investigation was stopped by the Supreme Court while it determines if Mr Khan’s remarks violate the right to free speech.
The court said it will examine whether a person holding a public office can make such comments which can impact the “victim in distress” and affect fair probe and whether a statement like that “defeats constitutional sensitivity”.
