Azam, wife, son get 7-yr jail in certificate case

Rampur (UP), Agencies: A court here 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 the jail from the court itself," said Arun Parkash Saxena, a former District Government Counsel, who represented the prosecution.

MP-MLA court magistrate Shobit Bansal awarded the three the maximum seven-year sentence. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav reacted to the news, saying his party latter was being harassed because he follows a different religion.

"Everyone knows he is being harassed because he built a university,'' Yadav said.