US EditionAzam Khan, Son Abdullah Sentenced to up to Seven Years in Dual PAN Card Case
Azam Khan and his son were convicted for using forged documents to hold two PAN cards with different birth dates, sentenced to seven years by a special court in Rampur.
- On Monday, the Special MP-MLA Magistrate Court in Rampur sentenced Azam Khan, Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister, and Abdullah Azam, son and former SP MLA, to seven years' imprisonment in the dual PAN card case and will decide their lodging.
- A December 2019 complaint alleged BJP leader Akash Saxena filed the case at Rampur's Civil Lines Police Station, accusing Azam Khan and his son of holding dual PAN cards with different dates of birth using forged documents.
- Prosecution records show Abdullah Azam's PAN record lists January 1, 1993, but his passport lists September 30, 1990, and he used different PAN numbers in election affidavit and income‑tax return records.
- Special Magistrate Shobhit Bansal held both Azam Khan and Abdullah Azam guilty after examining evidence, while the prosecution said it may review the judgment and consider an appeal and Khan's lawyer filed a joint jail plea.
- Since walking out of Sitapur Jail on September 23, Khan, facing over 100 cases, recently met Akhilesh Yadav and was acquitted in a 2014 letterhead case.
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Azam Khan, son Abdullah sentenced to 7-yr jail in dual PAN card case
Less than two months after he was released from Sitapur jail, SP leader Mohammed Azam Khan went back behind bars on Monday when a court convicted and sentenced him to seven years’ imprisonment in a 2019 case related to obtaining two PAN cards using different dates of birth. The special MP-MLA court here also sentenced Azam Khan’s son Abdullah Azam to seven years’ imprisonment in the same case. After the sentencing, the veteran Samajwadi Party wa…
SP leader Azam Khan, his son Abdullah Azam sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in dual PAN Card case
Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam were sentenced to seven years of imprisonment by an MP/MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Rampur in a dual PAN Card case on Monday.
While convicting senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam in the 2019 PAN card case, the special MP/MLA court sentenced them to seven years in prison. The case was related to obtaining a PAN card with two different dates of birth. The court said that Abdullah conspired with his father and deposited a fake PAN card. The prosecution can review the verdict and consider the appeal.
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