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 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 p

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