MPA arrested over the issue of fake degree

MPA arrested over the issue of fake degree

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A local court on Wednesday sentenced a former independent MPA Javed Akbar Khan to two years in prison and fined him Rs20,000 in a fake degree case.

The lawmaker, who was disqualified by an election tribunal in 2013, was arrested and shifted to central jail Dera following the decision was announced by the district and sessions judge.

In December 2013, an election tribunal had disqualified him and ordered re-election on his constituency, PK-68.