Rampur: In Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, a local court convicted Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, along with his wife Tazeen Fatima and their son Abdullah Azam, in a 2019 case involving forged birth certificates.
They have been sentenced to seven years in prison. Arun Parkash Saxena, a former district government counsel representing the prosecution, stated that after the court’s decision, the three individuals were taken into judicial custody and will be directly transferred from the court to the prison.
Magistrate Shobit Bansal, presiding over the MP-MLA court, imposed the maximum seven-year sentence on the three convicts. The case originated from an FIR filed by BJP MLA Akash Saxena at the Ganj police station in Rampur on January 3, 2019. The allegations suggested that Azam Khan and his wife aided their son in obtaining two fraudulent date of birth certificates, one from Lucknow and another from Rampur.
The birth certificate issued by the Rampur municipality indicated Abdullah Azam’s date of birth as January 1, 1993, while the other certificate stated that he was born in Lucknow on September 30, 1990.
