Azam Khan, son shifted to separate jails; says ‘could be killed in encounter’
SP leader urged them to let him take the window seat. "I will not be able to sit in the middle," Khan was heard telling police citing back-related problems. The personnel obliged.
Azam Khan was earlier lodged at Sitapur jail for almost two years in multiple cases before being released in May 2022, after getting bail from the Supreme Court. Last week, Rampur court in Uttar Pradesh convicted Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima, and son Abdullah Azam in a 2019 fake birth certificate case. The court also sentenced them to seven years in jail.
Magistrate Shobit Bansal, presiding over the MP-MLA court, handed down the maximum seven-year sentence to all three convicts. A fine of ₹15,000 was also awarded to all three of them. On January 3, 2019, BJP MLA Akash Saxena filed an FIR at the Ganj police station in Rampur, alleging that Azam Khan and his wife assisted their son in acquiring two counterfeit date of birth certificates, one from Lucknow and another from Rampur.
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