The Apex Court adjourned for next week the hearing on the plea filed by the UP Govt challenging the bail granted to Dr Tazeen Fatma, wife of Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, for allegedly forging her son Abdullah Azam Khan's birth certificate.
A Bench headed by CJI SA Bobde adjourned the case as the Solicitor General wasn't available.
The Govt of Uttar Pradesh has sought cancellation of bail to Tazeen Fatma in the case related to allegedly forging documents to show under-age son, Abdullah, as a major to enable him to contest the Assembly election.
In Oct 2020 the Allahabad HC had granted bail to MP Azam Khan, his wife, & son in the case.
Abdullah Azam Khan was elected as an MLA from the Suar seat from Rampur in 2017. He was disqualified from the membership of the State Legislative Assembly for being less than 25 years of age as of the date of the election, in Dec 2019.
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He was found guilty by the Allahabad HC for submitting a forged birth certificate to the election body to contest elections.
A complaint was lodged by Akash Saxena, a member of Bharatiya Janata Party, alleging that Azam Khan and his wife have got two birth certificates issued from different places, one dated January 28, 2012, from Nagar Palika Parishad, Rampur, & the second dated April 21, 2015, from Nagar Nigam, Lucknow, for their son.
The 1st birth certificate, which recorded his date of birth as January 1, 1993, was used for making a passport & was misused in foreign travel, the complaint alleged.
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While the 2nd birth certificate, which recorded his date of birth as Sept 30, 1990, was "misused" in Govt documents, contesting election to Legislative Assembly of the state & in different recognitions given to Jauhar University, it alleged.
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