HC reserves judgment in two criminal cases against Abdullah Azam
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Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has concluding hearings and reserved its judgment in two criminal cases linked to ex-MLA Mohammad Abdullah Azam Khan, son of senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan.
Abdullah had filed two petitions requesting the HC to quash the entire proceedings of the on-going trials in the Rampur's MP/MLA court.
The first case is related to Abdullah's alleged fake passport and the second concerns dual PAN cards.
Justice Sameer Jain reserved his judgment on Tuesday.
In the first case, BJP MLA Akash Saxena had filed a case against Abdullah at the Civil Lines police station in Rampur on July 30, 2019, for allegedly obtaining a passport using an incorrect date of birth.
It is alleged that the educational certificates and the information provided by Abdullah to the passport authorities were different.
According to the complaint, Abdullah was issued passport on Jan 10, 2018. The passport lists Abdullah's date of birth as Sep 30, 1990, whereas his educational certificates show it as Jan 1, 1993.
Regarding the dual PAN cards case, Akash Saxena had filed an FIR against Abdullah and his father Azam Khan at the Civil Lines police station in Rampur on Dec 6, 2019.
Saxena alleged that Abdullah had furnished an incorrect PAN number in his election affidavit during the 2017 assembly elections. The MLA claimed that Azam Khan got two PAN cards made for his son through fraudulent means to enable him to contest elections.
According to him, Abdullah allegedly concealed this fact in the affidavit submitted to the election commission. He showed one PAN number in the affidavit but used another in his income tax return (ITR) documents.
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