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He added that Azam will have to be produced before a court again on Nov 2 after police sought his remand in an Enforcement Directorate-related case in which Abdullah is not named. Azam’s counsel, Nizam Pasha, told TOI that both Azam and Abdullah would be released from Rampur jail.
In November last year, additional chief judicial magistrate Shobhit Bansal of a Rampur court convicted Azam and Abdullah under IPC Sections 420 (cheating) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) and sentenced them to seven years’ imprisonment in a case linked to forgery, cheating, use of forged documents and criminal conspiracy.
However, jail authorities said they were yet to receive the formal release orders from the court. The court, however, declined to stay their convictions, meaning both continue to remain disqualified from contesting elections. the high court noted that Azam has been convicted in eight cases, with appeals against two convictions already dismissed While granting bail.
Lucknow: Senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan and his son Abdullah Azam are likely to walk out of Rampur jail on Saturday after the Allahabad high court granted them bail and suspended their seven-year sentences in the dual PAN case. The relief came after Justice Samit Gopal on Thursday allowed the father-son duo’s plea for suspension of sentence and granted them bail.