SP heavyweight Azam Khan, wife and son surrender in court; sent to jail
The SP lawmaker and his family reportedly ignored court summons in a case related to forgery and failed to appear in court despite several notices.
New Delhi: In a major blow to Azam Khan, the Samajwadi Party (SP) heavyweight was sent to jail on Wednesday alongwith his wife and son Mohd Abdullah Azam. The trio were sent to 7-day judicial custody in connection with several cases lodged against them. The court will hear the matter on March 2.
Azam Khan is the Lok Sabha MP from Rampur while his wife Tanzim Fatima and son Mohd Abdullah Azam are legislators in the UP assembly
Azam Khan. The SP lawmaker and his family reportedly ignored court summons in a case related to forgery and failed to appear in court despite several notices.
The Samajwadi leader had made several attempts to get anticipatory bail but the same was denied by the court.
Earlier on Tuesday, a local MP-MLA court in Rampur had ordered attachments of the properties of Azam Khan, Tanzeen Fatima and Abdullah Azam after non-bailable warrants were issued against them in one of the cases and they failed to appear in court.
The court declared the three as “absconders” and had issued non-bailable warrants against them after they failed to appear before it.
The SP leader has more than 88 lawsuits pending against him. He has been charged with land grabbing, encroachment, power theft. His son Abdullah Azam was booked for forgery in birth date documents.