SP MLA Abdullah Azam Khan disqualified from UP Assembly after conviction in 15-year-old case

Khan, the son of senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, was elected to the Assembly from Suar in Rampur district.

Abdullah Azam Khan, a Samajwadi Party MLA, was debarred from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly on Wednesday, an official said, just days after a court convicted him to two years in prison in a 15-year-old case. Khan has been dismissed from the Assembly for the second time.

"Abdullah Azam Khan has been disqualified following the Moradabad court order sentencing him to two years (in jail) in a 15-year-old case. His seat has been declared vacant from February 13," a senior official of the Assembly said.


Abdullah Azam Khan and his father were found guilty under Section 353 of the Indian Penal Code and other regulations for a dharna on a state highway on January 29, 2008, as their cavalcade was pulled over by police for verifying in the aftermath of an invasion on a CRPF group in Rampur on December 31, 2007.

He was previously dismissed in 2020 after the Allahabad High Court ruled that his voting to the Assembly was invalid. His previous exemption expired on December 16, 2019.