The men who stole Azam Khan's buffaloes have been arrested. In February 2014, theft of seven buffaloes belonging to UP's powerful minister Azam Khan led the authorities to promptly punish three cops.


A sub-inspector and two constables were stripped off their posts and sent to lines in Rampur district, even after the local police recovered the buffaloes after a day-long hunt and deposited the bovines back in the minister's farmhouse on the outskirts of Rampur city, about 300 kilometres from Lucknow.


According to reports, the minister was contemplating more serious action against the policemen, and more heads were likely to roll, because the fastidious minister firmly believes in fixing responsibility for the "grave lapse' and "dereliction of duty.'