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Patna HC upholds life term for former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin

The Patna High Court on Wednesday upheld life imprisonment for former MP and RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin.

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The Patna HC on Wednesday upheld life imprisonment for former MP and RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin by a Bihar district court for murdering two brothers three years ago. The Patna HC also rejected his plea challenging the sentence awarded by the Siwan District Court on December 11, 2015.

Along with Shahabuddin, three others were sentenced to life imprisonment by an Additional District Judge of Siwan Special Court Ajay Kumar Srivastava in 2015, which he called the ‘rarest of rare case’.          

Bihar Police had charge sheeted six persons in the case before the probe was taken over by the agency. A total of eight accused have been charge-sheeted so far in the case.

The CBI has charged Shahabuddin, currently lodged in the high-security Tihar Jail in Delhi, under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy and murder and provisions of Arms Act, a statement from the agency said here.

"The charge sheet has been filed under section 120B (criminal conspiracy) read with 302 (murder) of the IPC as well as section 27 of the Arms Act," Sinha told PTI over phone.

The charge sheet has not been submitted against two other accused Mohammad Javed and Mohammad Kaif who are out on bail in the case as the investigation is currently underway, Sinha said.

It may be noted that the special CBI court on May 26 had made Shahabuddin an accused in the murder case.

The four-time RJD MP from Siwan is alleged to have been involved in the murder of Rajdeo Ranjan, a journalist of a prominent Hindi daily in Siwan.

Shahabuddin is facing trial in more than 45 criminal cases. He was moved to the Tihar Jail in February this year on a Supreme Court order on a plea by Siwan native Chandrakeshwar Prasad whose three sons were killed in two separate incidents.

Rajdeo Ranjan, district bureau chief of the Hindi daily, was gunned down on May 13 last year and his wife had accused Shahabuddin of having a role in the killing. 

With inputs from PTI

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