NEW DELHI: In a significant legal development, a court in the area handed down a verdict on Wednesday, resulting in the conviction of Azam Khan, a prominent figure within the Samajwadi Party, along with his wife Tazeen Fatima and their son Abdullah Azam. This conviction stems from their involvement in a 2019 case related to counterfeit birth certificates. The court has imposed a seven-year prison sentence on all three individuals.
Following the court's decision, the trio was immediately placed in judicial custody and will be transferred from the courtroom to a correctional facility, as confirmed by Arun Parkash Saxena, a former District Government Counsel who represented the prosecution.
Magistrate Shobit Bansal, presiding over the MP-MLA court, imposed the maximum seven-year sentence on the three convicted individuals, underscoring the severity of their actions.
The case originated from an FIR filed by BJP MLA Akash Saxena at the Ganj police station in Rampur on January 3, 2019. The complaint alleged that Azam Khan and his wife had played a role in facilitating their son's acquisition of two counterfeit birth certificates. These fraudulent documents originated from Lucknow and Rampur, respectively.
The certificate issued by the Rampur municipality indicated Abdullah Azam's birthdate as January 1, 1993, while the other certificate falsely claimed he was born in Lucknow on September 30, 1990.
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