Eight new cases of land grabbing in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh have been filed against SP leader Azam Khan for forcefully grabbing the lands of farmers for his university.
Azam Khan has claimed that the 'mob lynching' incidents are Muslims getting punished for not going to Pakistan in 1947. Khan, however, does not mention anything about scores of Hindus who have been killed by Muslim mobs in the country.
The Kerala High Court while hearing the petition today asked whether the land belongs to the government or the Devaswom board. The government has been given 10 days time to respond to this.
A village officer had given the Church time until today to remove the crosses. However, after the intervention of the state government, the revenue department has now stalled the process claiming it to be a matter of 'faith'.