New Delhi: In another major setback for Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal by his son Abdullah Azam Khan challenging the Allahabad High Court order that upheld his election as an MLA from Uttar Pradesh. Canceled on the ground that he was underage and not eligible. To contest elections in 2017.
SC dismisses appeal filed by Abdullah Azam Khan, son of SP leader Azam Khan challenging the Allahabad HC order, which barred his election from UP’s Suar assembly constituency, observing that he was 25y/o were short and not qualified to fill seats in the legislature. of the state. pic.twitter.com/nKz149vxDh— ANI (@ANI) 7 November 2022
The Allahabad High Court had declared the election of Abdullah Khan from Suar assembly constituency in Rampur district invalid as he was below 25 years of age. Abdullah Khan was elected MLA on March 11, 2017 on a Samajwadi Party ticket.
The Supreme Court had earlier dismissed his plea challenging an Allahabad High Court order refusing to quash the chargesheet in the fake birth certificate case of his MLA son, saying it interfered with the High Court order. find no reason to do so. The petition was dismissed by a division bench of Justice Hemant Gupta and Justice Vikram Nath. “However, any observation and discussion passed by the High Court shall not be prejudicial to the suit which the appellant is to face,” the bench said.
Azam Khan, his wife Tazeen Fatima and son Abdullah Azam Khan were in jail in a criminal case registered against him on two alleged fake birth certificates issued to Abdullah, the sitting MLA of Uttar Pradesh’s Suar, fraudulently from two different places. .
On January 3, 2019, the FIR lodged by BJP leader Akash Saxena at Ganj police station in Rampur alleged that Azam Khan and his wife helped their son get two fake birth certificates- one from Lucknow and the other from Rampur. .
Abdullah Azam was elected to the state assembly in the previous elections as well, but the election was annulled by the Allahabad High Court on the grounds that he was below the required 25 years of age at the time of filing his nomination. Azam Khan is a 10-time MLA from Rampur Assembly Constituency.
Before being granted interim bail by the Supreme Court in a cheating case in May this year, the state’s most prominent Muslim politician, Azam Khan, was jailed for 27 months in several cases including land grabbing.