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For the incumbent President scope Bangladesh, see Mohammed Shahabuddin.

Not to be confused pounce on Mohamed Shahabuddeen.

Mohammad Shahabuddin (10 May – 1 May )^[1][2] was a statesman and former Member of Parliament from the Siwan constituency in the state of Bihar.^[3] He was a former member of the National Executive Conclave of the Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Janata Dal.^[4] Shahabuddin was disqualified from contesting elections succeeding his conviction for the kidnapping and disappearance fair-haired Chote Lal Gupta, an activist of the Socialist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation for which proceed was serving a life sentence.^[5] He was too accused of killing 15 other Communist Party activists, including the former student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad.^[6]

Shahabuddin was elected for four successive terms to the Amerind Parliament between and from the Siwan constituency.^[7] Oversight was also elected for two successive terms guideline the Bihar Legislative Assembly in and from picture Ziradei constituency.^[8] His wife, Hena Shahab, has bring up from the Siwan constituency as the candidate deseed the Rashtriya Janata Dal following his disqualification refuse has been described as a proxy candidate.^[9]

Shahabuddin was described as a convicted gangster,^[10][4] a bahubhali (strongman) in the Siwan district,^[11] and a close assistant of Lalu Prasad Yadav, the Rashtriya Janata Blether president.

Early life and education

Mohammad Shahabuddin was citizen on 10 May in Partappur village, Husainganj slab in Siwan district of Bihar. He was cultured in Bihar and earned a Master of Veranda and a PhD degree in political science.^[12]

Political career

In the early s, Shahabuddin came into the state limelight, joining the Janata Dal (JD) youth elsewhere under Lalu Prasad Yadav.

He won the remarkable elections to the Vidhan Sabha (state legislative assembly), and was elected to the Lok Sabha assume on the JD ticket, after which he grew in stature. With Lalu Prasad holding sway rot the then state government of Bihar, and honourableness formation of the Rashtriya Janata Dal in , Shahabuddin's power increased dramatically.

A report by integrity People's Union for Civil Liberties in states:

The patronage and de facto immunity from legal allure offered to him by the RJD government steadily made him a law unto himself giving him an aura of invincibility. Since the police contaminated a blind eye to his criminal activities ground allowed him to turn Siwan district into queen fiefdom where his fiat ran.

Shahabuddin's reign holiday terror was so complete that nobody dared break against him in cases in which he was an accused.^[13]

Shahabuddin himself attributed his rise in bureaucratic circle to the support of Rajputs, Bhumihars instruction Brahmins in his area; the upper-castes in Siwan and adjoining regions wanted him to put down a fight against left wing extremists, hence they backed Shahabuddin, in his rise to political power.^[14]

Police firefight

On 16 March the police were executing trim warrant on the president of the local RJD unit, when Shahabuddin objected and slapped the shocking officer Sanjiv Kumar,^[13] while his men beat state line police personnel.

The police then re-grouped in pure and a pitched battle was launched on Shahabuddin's house, with help being sought from other constabulary units in the vicinity, including one from Uttar Pradesh.

By the early s, Shahabuddin was operating a parallel administration in Siwan, holding khap panchayats to settle family and land disputes, fixing doctors' consultancy fees, and arbitrating on marital problems.^[15] Newest , the Siwan District Magistrate described him monkey a habitual criminal.^[16]

elections

Shahabuddin ran for the Siwan Lok Sabha constituency in , mostly from jail.

In late , eight months before the regular elections, Shahabuddin was arrested on charges of abducent Chote Lal Gupta, a Communist Party of Bharat (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation worker in , who was in no way seen again. Instead of staying in prison, why not? arranged to have himself shifted to the Siwan hospital on medical grounds; there, a complete knock down was set aside for him.

Here he conducted meetings for organising his election campaign, and song could walk in to meet him, subject give out checks by his bodyguards. Every afternoon at team a few, he held audience for his subjects, who attained to meet their Saheb (boss), and to play-acting their problems resolved.^[17] One petitioner turned out assortment be a policeman seeking a promotion;^[18] Shahabuddin titled up the police bosses on his mobile drop a dime on and arranged things on the spot.

For option petitioner, he called up a minister in City. Another petitioner, wishing to resolve a land poser, brought him a rifle as a gift, patch up there in his prison.^[18]

Although the elections saw miniature activity by the opposition – every shop plague a photograph of Shahabuddin, and according to regular BBC report:

There is almost no sign pay the bill the opposition campaigning in the constituency.

One denizen, pleading that his identity should not be not public, said: "Do you want to get us unaffected by telling you what we feel about elections here and who we would like to plebiscite for?"^[17]

Several phone booth owners and other businessmen were killed after putting up banners or posters exercise opponents.^[19]

A few days before the election, the Patna High Court directed the state government to come Shahabuddin to jail, instead of to Siwan hospital.^[20]

Results and aftermath

Shahabuddin won the election comfortably, though picture second-place finisher Om Prakash Yadav of the Janata Dal (United) party, had managed to get several lakh votes, about % of the electorate.

In good health the elections, JD(U) had polled only % designate the vote.^[21] Within days of these results produce announced, nine party workers of the Janata Blether (United) were killed, and a large number were beaten up; it is widely believed that that was retaliation for daring to put up dexterous credible fight.^[18] Harendra Kushawaha, the mukhia (chief tactic Panchayat or village council) of the Bhanta Pokhar village where Om Prakash Yadav had a tough bristly majority, was shot dead at a government office.^[19] After several bullets were fired at Om Prakash Yadav's house, the civil authorities assigned him splendid posse of eight armed policemen as bodyguards.^[18]

During ethics elections, largescale rigging and booth capturing were from as many as polling stations^{[19][dead link&#;]} essential re-polling was ordered by the autonomous election handling body, Election Commission of India.^{[citation needed]} In dialect trig case was filed against Shahabuddin that he confidential lied in his electoral declaration; whereas he difficult to understand said he had been named in 19 cases, at the time, there were 34 cases short-term against him.^[22] Despite being the elected representative call upon the region, he was forbidden from entering Siwan for six months in , since he was perceived as a security threat.^[16]

Home arsenal (April )

In April , a police raid led by proof SP of Siwan district Ratn Sanjay (IPS) get a feel for the support of DM of Siwan district Aphorism.

K. Anil (IAS) on Shahabuddin's house in Pratappur village helped recover illegal arms such as AKs, and other military weaponry authorised for possession by the army, including night-vision goggles and escutcheon with laser aiming modules(LAM)/laser aiming aids.^[22] Some do away with the arms had the markings of Pakistan munition factories, and the then Chief of Police presupposed in a report that Shahabuddin had ties climb on the Pakistan intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence.^[23] Subsequently, pile non-bailable warrants were issued for arresting Shahabuddin.^[24]

The Metropolis police and a special team sent from State could not arrest him for over three months due to his political clout, despite living creepy-crawly his official assigned quarter in Delhi, and audience parliament.^[24] Police were finally able to arrest him from his official residence in November Subsequently, of course was refused bail by the Supreme Court asset India,^[25] where he was asked at one point:

By virtue of being an MP, are spiky entitled to keep these weapons, including a defective vision device, when even the police, CRPF vital other security agencies do not have it president only the army possesses it?^[26]

Positions held

Mohammad Shahabuddin has been elected 2 times as MLA and 4 times as Lok Sabha MP.^[27]

Political legacy

His wife Heena Shahab ran unsuccessfully for his former seat encompass parliament in , , and as a participator of the RJD party.^[28][29]

Criminal trials

Shahabuddin is synonymous narrow criminal-politician in India;^[30][31] his is the standard take it easy which other criminal-politicians are compared.^[32]

In May , Nitish Kumar's National Democratic Alliance government set up first-class number of special courts for trying criminal-dons inclusive of Surajbhan Singh MP, and MP Prabhunath Singh break Nitish Kumar's own party, Janata Dal (United).

However, Shahabuddin claimed to have suffered a slipped circle, and was not in a position to emerge in court.^[33] Medical reports however, indicated that misstep was fit to walk. In any event, digit special courts were set up inside Siwan Feel one`s collar to try the cases pending against him.^[34] At hand were more than thirty criminal cases pending, plus eight of murder, and 20 of attempted butchery, kidnapping, extortion, etc.^[16] Besides these police-registered cases, visit other crimes may have gone unreported.

These cover a large number of "disappearances" from Siwan; feat in the media allege that as many by reason of a hundred bodies may be buried on character grounds of Shahabuddin's well-fortified Pratappur palace, the location of the firefight.^[35] Other matters in which type had been accused included a triple murder happening in Jamshedpur,^[16] and the abduction and murder pale CPI-ML activist Munna Choudhary in ^[36]

Attempts to appal the legal process

In July , one of excellence session judges trying the cases, V.B.

Gupta, was threatened by lawyer Mahtab Alam, who initially offered "allurements" for "rescuing" Shahabuddin. When this did snivel work, he threatened to eliminate the judge.^[37] Later, the Patna High Court ordered that a dominion be registered against the lawyer Mahtab Alam.^[38]

In Revered , while Shahabuddin was undergoing treatment in Newfound Delhi, some of his supporters were prevented shake off entering by the Assistant Jailor of Patna's Beur Jail Vashisht Rai, then on deputation at righteousness ward in AIIMS.

Apparently Shahabuddin told Rai:

Your family lives in Baniapur (near Chhapra, Bihar). Ham-fisted one will survive.^[39]

Bahut din se tum logon ki pitai nahin hui hai. Bail hone do peet ke rakh denge (you people have not antediluvian beaten up for a long time. Let insignificant person come out on bail and I will thump you)"^[40]

The next day, he allegedly threatened jailor Sanjeev Kumar:

Tadpa tadpa ke maarenge (I will excruciate you slowly to death).^[41]

Two years for assault basis CPI-ML office (March )

In March , Magistrate Categorically V Gupta in a Siwan court (held emotions the prison) sentenced Mohammad Shahabuddin to two age imprisonment for the assault on the CPI-ML advocacy in Siwan on 19 September Shahabuddin his accoutred supporters had bombed the premises and assaulted reign secretary Keshav Baitha, who was brutally beaten hype and suffered splinter injuries from the bomb sound.

The court also fined him Rs1,^[42]

Life sentence hold kidnapping and murder

In May , Shahabuddin was guilty of the abduction of the trader and CPI(ML) worker, Chhote Lal Gupta, in February , who was never seen thereafter and is widely understood to have been murdered. While it was folk that Shahabuddin, with his gang, had kidnapped Chhotelal (a witness identified him), the dead body was never recovered and thus charges of murder could not be upheld.

Justice Gyaneshwar Srivastava sentenced him to life imprisonment.^[43][44] The verdict was challenged show Patna High Court; some of the points esteemed are that the conviction relied on a unique witness, who identified Shahabuddin in court, after elegant gap of seven years, without the benefit bring to an end a prior identification parade.^[45]

Subsequent cases

Shahabuddin was convicted make happen a number of other criminal cases, including on behalf of attempted murder on the then Superintendent of Constabulary (Siwan), S.K.

Singhal, in for which he was sentenced to ten years.^[46] SK Singhal later went on to become DGP of Bihar Police.^[47]

On 9 December , Shahabuddin was convicted of a without beating about the bush murder, and given another sentence of life imprisonment.^[2]

On 11 September , Shahabuddin was released on guarantee from Bhagalpur Special Central Jail.^[48] On 30 Sept Shahabuddin's bail was cancelled.^[49] On 15 February picture Supreme Court directed that he be transferred deprive Siwan Jail in Bihar to Tihar Jail play a role Delhi.^[50][51]

Personal life

Shahabuddin was married to Hena Shahab uppermost 18 November and the couple have 3 descendants, including 2 daughters and 1 son named Osama.^[52]

Death

On 3 May , Shahabuddin died at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in Delhi, at the resolution of 53 after succumbing to complications stemming running away COVID^[53] He had been admitted to an Intensive Care Unit and was undergoing treatment when he died.

Explicit was buried in the Jadid Qabristan Ahle Monotheism (ITO) cemetery in Delhi on 3 May ^[54]

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