Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mohammad Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam were on Monday convicted and sentenced to jail terms of seven years each by a special MP/MLA court here in a 2019 case related to obtaining two PAN cards using different dates of birth, a prosecution officer said.

After the sentencing, Khan was taken from the Rampur court to the district jail under heavy security. While being taken to prison, he said, “What is there to say now? It is the court’s decision.”

Asked about the court awarding a seven-year sentence each to him and his son, the 77-year-old leader replied, “It is fine. If they have considered me guilty, they have given the punishment.”

Delivering the verdict, Special Magistrate (MP/MLA Court) Shobhit Bansal held both father and son guilty after exami

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