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Allahabad High Court Stays Azam Khan's 7-Year Jail Term In Fake Birth Certificate Case

The Allahabad High Court did not entertain the applications seeking a stay on the sentences for Azam Khan's wife Tazeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam.

New Delhi: In a significant relief for senior Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Azam Khan, the Allahabad High Court has stayed his seven-year prison sentence in a fake birth certificate case. The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to senior Azam Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima, and their son Abdullah Azam. However, the court did not entertain the applications seeking a stay on the sentences of Tazeen Fatima and Abdullah Azam.

The petitions were filed against the seven-year sentence handed to Abdullah Azam for creating and misusing two birth certificates.

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Advocate Sharad Sharma told news agency ANI, "All three have been granted bail. Azam Khan's conviction has been stayed and Tazeen Fatima and Abdullah Azam's convictions have been rejected".

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"Considering the nature of allegations and evidence on record against the accused, I find that the case of Mohd Azam Khan is different from that of Dr Tanzeen Fatima and Mohd Abdullah Azam Khan," the court said in its 57-page order on Friday.

Azam Khan, along with his wife Tazeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam Khan, had challenged their seven-year sentence awarded by a special court in Rampur moving the Allahabad High Court.

The special court of Rampur sentenced the three on October 18, 2023, to seven years in jail and imposed a fine of fifty thousand rupees each.

The decision by the single bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Singh came after the hearing on all three petitions was completed and the judgment was reserved on May 14​.

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