[4] A criminal case was lodged against him along with Habib-ur-Rehman and Nafisa in 2001, after an incident on 3 September 2001, when a mob, led by Bukhari assaulted on-duty police and civic agencies officials trying to remove encroachments from near CGO Complex in Lodhi Colony.
Assembly Elections, Bukhari wrote a letter to Mulayam Singh Yadav criticizing him for not nominating Muslim candidates to Rajya Sabha.
minister and senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan alleged that Bukhari was accusing the Government of not giving equal rights to Muslims because he wanted his brother and son in law Umar Ali Khan to get Rajya Sabha Tickets.
[8] After the Dadri Lynching Case, Bukhari alleged that Azam Khan cannot go to the place of incident but was talking of going to United Nations to hide his incompetence.
Azam Khan denied the charge and accused him of being hand in glove with Hindu right wing organizations.