Lucknow: Senior Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former MP Azam Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam were on Wednesday sentenced seven years in prison in a 2019 fake birth certificate case.
A local court in Rampur held the trio guilty in the morning after which they were taken into custody.
“Later in the day, the court sentenced Azam Khan, Tanzeen Fatima and Abdullah Azam Khan to seven years imprisonment each in the case,” said joint director, prosecution (Rampur) Shiv Prakash Pandey.
MP-MLA court magistrate Shobit Bansal awarded all three convicts maximum seven-year sentence, reported PTI.
“There is a difference between decision and justice. This is just a decision,” said a a defiant Khan, who will almost certainly challenge the local court’s verdict.
This is the fourth case in which Khan has been convicted in the last one month, and the second conviction of former MLA Abdullah.
An FIR was lodged in the case by BJP MLA Akash Saxena at Ganj police station in Rampur on January 3, 2019, alleging Khan and his wife helped their son obtain two fake birth certificates — one from Lucknow and another from Rampur.
According to the certificate issued by Rampur municipality, Abdullah’s date of birth was mentioned as January 1, 1993. The other certificate said he was born in Lucknow on September 30, 1990.
