Azam Khan, wife, son given 7-year jail in fake birth certificate case; taken into custody
Public Lokpal
October 18, 2023
Azam Khan, wife, son given 7-year jail in fake birth certificate case; taken into custody
Lucknow : A Rampur court on Wednesday 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 he 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 birth certificates: one from Lucknow and another from Rampur.
According to the chargesheet, 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.