Rampur (Uttar Pradesh): In fresh trouble for Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Khan, an Uttar Pradesh court on Monday sentenced both of them to seven years of imprisonment for the offence of possessing two PAN cards with different Dates of Birth (DOB), a lawyer said.

The Special MP-MLA Court in Rampur held Abdullah Khan guilty of getting a second PAN card made with a wrong date of birth to increase his age on record, making him eligible to contest election.

After the Special Court’s decision in a packed courtroom, the father-son duo was taken into custody.

The prosecution succeeded in proving in court that Abdullah Khan, a former MLA, indulged in the forgery to qualify for contesting an election and Azam Khan was part of the larger conspiracy.

The prosecution said t

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