New Delhi, July 30 -- The Supreme Court has stayed the Allahabad High Court's order that had permitted the continuation of criminal trials against Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan, son of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, in two cases pending before the MP/MLA court in Rampur.
A bench comprising Justice MM Sundresh and Justice N Kotiswar Singh issued notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on Abdullah's appeal, which challenges the High Court's July 23 decision refusing to quash the proceedings.
The High Court had dismissed Abdullah's petitions seeking to set aside the criminal trials in two
separate cases. One relates to allegations of falsifying his date of birth to obtain a passport, and the other concerns the use of two different PAN cards...