Shahabuddin conduct incorrigible, Bihar govt submits in SC
NEW DELHI: A day before a crucial hearing on petitions seeking to put RJD strongman Md Shahabuddin back in jail, the Nitish Kumar government on Tuesday filed additional documents in the Supreme Court to highlight his unruly conduct in jail to support the pleas.
The Supreme Court will take up on Wednesday three petitions - one filed by the Bihar government and two separate petitions by the father and mother of three brothers allegedly killed at Shahabuddin’s behest. The petitions all want him back in jail.
The Bihar government also submitted a list of 75 criminal cases in which Shahabuddin’s name figures. Out of these 75 cases, he has been convicted in 10 and acquitted in 20, while the rest 45 are pending trial in various stages. In most of the pending cases, trial has been stayed by the Patna High Court.
The government has also filed copies of a letter written by the Siwan district magistrate to the state home department highlighting his “incorrigible tendency” to do things against established norms in jail.
Shahabuddin - who represented Siwan in the Lok Sabha for four successive terms between 1996 and 2008 - was in jail for more than 10 years in multiple cases. He was granted bail by the Patna High Court on September 7 in connection with the murder of a man who witnessed the killing of two brothers in Siwan.
The petitions by the government and Chandrakeshwar Prasad demand quashing of the September 7 order granting bail, while the one filed by Kalavati Devi challenges the high court’s March 2016 order to release Shahabuddin on bail over the murder of her sons – a case in which he has already been convicted.
The Supreme Court had on September 19 asked Shahabuddin to respond to the petitions filed by Bihar government and Prasad challenging the Patna High Court’s order granting him bail
