Rampur (Uttar Pradesh): The Uttar Pradesh Assembly Secretariat on Saturday issued a notice to the senior Samajwadi Party leader and MP Azam Khan's son Abdullah Azam Khan to pay back Rs 65.85 lakh paid to him as a member of State Assembly.
It asked the Samajwadi leader to pay the amount within three months which were earlier paid to him as salary and other allowances.
Earlier on November 27, the Allahabad High Court denied bail to senior Samajwadi Party leader and MP Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam Khan in two cases relating to alleged cheating and forgery.
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The allegations against the applicants were that they had forged PAN to show the wrong date of birth of Abdullah to enable him to contest the UP Assembly elections from the Suar constituency in Rampur in 2017.
It may be recalled that FIRs were lodged against the Azam Khan and Abdullah Azam in 2019 alleging that on January 24, 2017, Abdullah had filed nomination papers for contesting from Suar Assembly constituency.
In the nomination papers, Abdullah Azam's date of birth was wrongly mentioned as September 30, 1990, to make him eligible for contesting elections, and in support of it, a forged PAN card was also obtained with the help of Azam Khan.
Azam Khan, his son Abdullah Azam and wife Tanzeen Fatima are lodged in Sitapur jail since February this year.
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