Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, who is lodged in Sitapur jail for 38 months, was taken to Lucknow to appear before the CBI court.

However, due to the absence of a few documents on the part of the CBI, the hearing could not take place and the SP leader was set back to the Sitapur jail. The next date for the hearing will be given by this evening. He was taken to the court in connection with a case concerning an alleged Jal Nigam recruitment scam which is being investigated by the Central agency. The investigation of the alleged scam, which was registered by the SIT in 2017, was handed over to the CBI.