The Patna high court on Wednesday granted bail to former Siwan MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in connection with a case involving the murders of two brothers around 11 years ago.
The Patna high court on Wednesday granted bail to former Siwan MP Mohammad Shahabuddin in connection with a case involving the murders of two brothers around 11 years ago. A bench headed by Justice Anjana Prakash admitted the bail petition which was earlier rejected by the same court. In this particular case he was awarded life imprisonment by a district court in December last year. According to lawyers, Shahabuddin, who was termed a Type A history-sheeter by the Bihar police earlier, will not be released as he is already facing a life term in a case of abduction with intent to murder. Besides, there are other cases of similar nature pending against him. He has been in jail since 2003. Mohammad Shahabuddin, after being sentenced by the district court, had moved the Patna high court for bail. The district court, while awarding a life sentence to him last year, had found him and two of his henchmen guilty of brutally murdering two youth — Girish and Satish — by giving them an acid bath in his native village Paratapur.
Sources said lawyers representing Shahabuddin, while filing the bail petition in the Patna high court, had mentioned that “he (Shahabuddin) was wrongly accused in the case as he was in jail when the incident had occurred”. According to lawyers, the FIR filed by the murdered youths’ mother, Kalawati Devi, clearly mentions that the incident had occurred on August 16, 2004.
