New Delhi, 22 August : The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a plea challenging a trial court order ordering Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan to give voice samples in a hate speech case. Today, on behalf of Azam Khan, advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned it before the bench headed by Justice AS Bopanna and demanded an early hearing on it. After that, the court ordered the hearing for tomorrow, i.e., August 23.
Kapil Sibal said that the MP-MLA court of Rampur was told that a petition has been filed in the Supreme Court in this matter, yet the court did not adjourn the hearing of the case. Then the court said that the matter would be heard on August 25. Then Sibal said that the hearing is going to be held in the MP-MLA court of Rampur tomorrow, i.e., on August 23. The Supreme Court then ordered the hearing on August 23 itself.
The MP-MLA court of Rampur had ordered to take samples of Azam Khan’s voice to test the veracity of Azam Khan’s speech presented in the CD in a hate speech case. Azam Khan was accused of making inflammatory speeches against a particular community in 2007
