A special MP/MLA court in Rampur has sentenced former MLA Abdullah Azam Khan, son of jailed senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, to seven years’ imprisonment for allegedly using forged documents to obtain his passport.

The case was registered in 2019 based on a complaint by sitting BJP MLA Akash Saxena.

The latest judgment comes nearly three weeks after another bench of the Rampur court sentenced Azam and Abdullah to seven years’ imprisonment in a forgery case involving two PAN cards. Both father and son have been lodged in the Rampur district jail since their conviction on November 17.

With Wednesday’s order, Abdullah has now been convicted in three cases, while Azam has been sentenced in seven. Overall, 77 cases against Azam and 40 cases against Abdullah are still pending before t

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