Samajwadi Party chief Abdullah Azam Khan, the son of the party`s veteran Azam Khan, has been disqualified from the meeting following a courtroom docket conviction in a 15-yr-vintage case. This marks the second one disqualification for Mr Khan, who represented the Suar constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and setback for the Akhilesh Yadav-led party. On Monday, a courtroom docket in Moradabad sentenced Abdullah Azam Khan and his father to 2 years in prison in a 2008 case. They had been determined responsible of preventing a public servant from doing their activity and different fees after staging a protest on a nation motorway on January 29, 2008. Their cavalcade changed into stopped through the police for checking withinside the wake of an assault on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Rampur on December 31, 2007. However, the courtroom docket has granted bail to each of them.
Under the law, a lawmaker sentenced to imprisonment of years or extra may be disqualified “from the date of such conviction” and stay disqualified for any other six years after serving time in prison. “Abdullah Azam Khan has been disqualified following the Moradabad courtroom docket order sentencing him to 2 years (in prison) in a 15-yr-vintage case. His seat has been declared vacant from February 13,” a senior authentic of the meeting said.
This isn’t always the primary time that Abdullah Azam Khan has been disqualified. In 2020, the Allahabad High Court set apart his election, and he changed into disqualified from the meeting powerful December 16, 2019. The courtroom docket dominated that he changed into now no longer certified to contest the election as he changed into underneath 25 years of age while he filed his nomination papers because the Samajwadi Party candidate from Suar in 2017. Despite this, he gained the Suar seat once more withinside the 2022 Assembly elections.
Last yr in October, Azam Khan, who represented Rampur Sadar withinside the meeting, confronted disqualification after a courtroom docket sentenced him to a few years in prison in a hate speech case. In the through-ballot hung on the seat in December, BJP’s Akash Saxena defeated Mr Khan’s protege Asim Raza. Azam Khan had gained the Rampur Sadar seat 9 instances on the grounds that 1980.
