A court in Uttar Pradesh has acquitted Samajwadi party leader Azam Khan in 2019 hate speech case. The court in Rampur overturned the verdict of a lower court which had found the Samajwadi leader guilty of hate speech last year. Azam Khan has a strong following in Rampur and other parts of western Uttar Pradesh.

Khan faces 87 cases, with charges ranging from corruption and theft to land grab, filed since the Bharatiya Janata Party took power in Uttar Pradesh in 2017.