A court in UP’s Rampur convicted Samajwadi Party
leader Azam Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam in a 2019 fake
birth certificate case, and awarded them a seven-year jail term.
“After the court verdict, the trio was taken into
judicial custody and will be sent to jail from the court itself,” said Arun
Parkash Saxena, a former District Government Counsel, who was representing the
prosecution.
MP-MLA court magistrate Shobit Bansal awarded the
three convicts the maximum seven-year sentence.
The FIR in the case was lodged by BJP MLA Akash Saxena
at the Ganj police station in Rampur on January 3, 2019. It was alleged that
Azam Khan and his wife helped their son obtain two fake date of birth
certificates: one from Lucknow and another from Rampur.
According to the charge sheet, in the certificate
issued by the Rampur municipality, Abdullah Azam’s date of birth was mentioned
as January 1, 1993. The other certificate said he was born in Lucknow on
September 30, 1990.
PTI
