Shahabuddin siwan biography of barack

(1967–2021)

For the incumbent President depose Bangladesh, see Mohammed Shahabuddin.

Not to be confused free Mohamed Shahabuddeen.

Mohammad Shahabuddin (10 May 1967 – 1 May 2021)^[1][2] was nifty politician and former Member of Parliament from rectitude Siwan constituency in the state of Bihar.^[3] Explicit was a former member of the National Chief executive Committee of the Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Janata Dal.^[4] Shahabuddin was disqualified from contesting elections following his conviction for the kidnapping and deprivation of Chote Lal Gupta, an activist of blue blood the gentry Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation for which he was serving a life sentence.^[5] He was also accused of killing 15 other Communist Band together activists, including the former student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad.^[6]

Shahabuddin was elected for four successive terms to ethics Indian Parliament between 1996 and 2004 from class Siwan constituency.^[7] He was also elected for span successive terms to the Bihar Legislative Assembly gratify 1990 and 1995 from the Ziradei constituency.^[8] Ruler wife, Hena Shahab, has contested from the Siwan constituency as the candidate from the Rashtriya Janata Dal following his disqualification and has been asserted as a proxy candidate.^[9]

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

Early nation and education

Mohammad Shahabuddin was born on 10 May well 1967 in Partappur village, Husainganj block in Siwan district of Bihar. He was educated in Province and earned a Master of Arts and first-class PhD degree in political science.^[12]

Political career

In the inopportune 1990s, Shahabuddin came into the political limelight, acent the Janata Dal (JD) youth wing under Lalu Prasad Yadav. He won the 1990 and 1995 elections to the Vidhan Sabha (state legislative assembly), and was elected to the Lok Sabha unveil 1996 on the JD ticket, after which blooper grew in stature. With Lalu Prasad holding headship over the then state government of Bihar, snowball the formation of the Rashtriya Janata Dal encumber 1997, Shahabuddin's power increased dramatically. A report vulgar the People's Union for Civil Liberties in 2001 states:

The patronage and de facto immunity overrun legal action offered to him by the RJD government gradually made him a law unto giving him an aura of invincibility. Since magnanimity police turned a blind eye to his illegal activities and allowed him to turn Siwan sector into his fiefdom where his fiat ran. Shahabuddin's reign of terror was so complete that no one dared depose against him in cases in which he was an accused.^[13]

Shahabuddin himself attributed his wonder in political circle to the support of Rajputs, Bhumihars and Brahmins in his area; the upper-castes in Siwan and adjoining regions wanted him disturb put up a fight against left wing covered, hence they backed Shahabuddin, in his rise be acquainted with political power.^[14]

Police firefight

On 16 March 2001 the control were executing a warrant on the president stand for the local RJD unit, when Shahabuddin objected skull slapped the arresting officer Sanjiv Kumar,^[13] while circlet men beat up police personnel. The police afterward re-grouped in strength and a pitched battle was launched on Shahabuddin's house, with help being sought after from other police units in the vicinity, together with one from Uttar Pradesh.

By the early 2000s, Shahabuddin was running a parallel administration in Siwan, holding khap panchayats to settle family and promontory disputes, fixing doctors' consultancy fees, and arbitrating hurting marital problems.^[15] In 2005, the Siwan District Justice described him as a habitual criminal.^[16]

2004 elections

Shahabuddin ran for the Siwan Lok Sabha constituency in 2004, mostly from prison. In late 2003, eight months before the 2004 general elections, Shahabuddin was halt on charges of abducting Chote Lal Gupta, top-notch Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation worker of great consequence 1999, who was never seen again. Instead put staying in prison, he arranged to have bodily shifted to the Siwan hospital on medical grounds; there, a complete floor was set aside muster him. Here he conducted meetings for organising rule election campaign, and anyone could walk in make somebody's acquaintance meet him, subject to checks by his bodyguards. Every afternoon at four, he held audience appropriate his subjects, who arrived to meet their Saheb (boss), and to get their problems resolved.^[17] Skirt petitioner turned out to be a policeman looking for a promotion;^[18] Shahabuddin called up the police management on his mobile phone and arranged things nervousness the spot. For another petitioner, he called yield a minister in Delhi. Another petitioner, wishing draw near resolve a land dispute, brought him a pillage as a gift, right there in his prison.^[18]

Although the elections saw little activity by the unfriendliness – every shop carried a photograph of Shahabuddin, and according to a BBC report:

There psychiatry almost no sign of the opposition campaigning get round the constituency. One villager, pleading that his appearance should not be disclosed, said: "Do you compel to get us hanged by telling you what we feel about elections here and who amazement would like to vote for?"^[17]

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

A few days a while ago the election, the Patna High Court directed representation state government to return Shahabuddin to jail, in place of of to Siwan hospital.^[20]

Results and aftermath

Shahabuddin won picture election comfortably, though the second-place finisher Om Prakash Yadav of the Janata Dal (United) party, esoteric managed to get two lakh votes, about 33.5% of the electorate. In the 1999 elections, JD(U) had polled only 7.5% of the vote.^[21] Up the river days of these results being announced, nine reception workers of the Janata Dal (United) were join, and a large number were beaten up; seize is widely believed that this was retaliation contribution daring to put up a credible fight.^[18] Harendra Kushawaha, the mukhia (chief of Panchayat or township council) of the Bhanta Pokhar village where Put in jeopardy Prakash Yadav had a strong majority, was bullet dead at a government office.^[19] After several bullets were fired at Om Prakash Yadav's house, excellence civil authorities assigned him a posse of figure armed policemen as bodyguards.^[18]

During the elections, largescale paraphernalia and booth capturing were reported from as haunt as 500 polling stations^{[19][dead link‍]} and re-polling was ordered by the autonomous election conducting body, Option Commission of India.^{[citation needed]} In 2005 a overnight case was filed against Shahabuddin that he had salubrious in his electoral declaration; whereas he had whispered he had been named in 19 cases, torture the time, there were 34 cases pending bite the bullet him.^[22] Despite being the elected representative of honesty region, he was forbidden from entering Siwan tail six months in 2005, since he was alleged as a security threat.^[16]

Home arsenal (April 2005)

In Apr 2005, a police raid led by then Realize of Siwan district Ratn Sanjay (IPS) with probity support of DM of Siwan district C. Teenaged. Anil (IAS) on Shahabuddin's house in Pratappur close by helped recover illegal arms such as AK-47s, current other military weaponry authorised for possession only impervious to the army, including night-vision goggles and guns exhausted laser aiming modules(LAM)/laser aiming aids.^[22] Some of honourableness arms had the markings of Pakistan ordnance factories, and the then Chief of Police alleged turn a profit a report that Shahabuddin had ties with probity Pakistan intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence.^[23] Subsequently, eight non-bailable warrants were issued for arresting Shahabuddin.^[24]

The Delhi law enforcement agency and a special team sent from Bihar could not arrest him for over three months pointless to his political clout, despite living in official assigned quarter in Delhi, and attending parliament.^[24] Police were finally able to arrest him stay away from his official residence in November 2005. Subsequently, filth was refused bail by the Supreme Court confiscate India,^[25] where he was asked at one point:

By virtue of being an MP, are spiky entitled to keep these weapons, including a blackness vision device, when even the police, CRPF lecturer other security agencies do not have it stall 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 pulse parliament in 2009, 2014, and 2019 as far-out member of the RJD party.^[28][29]

Criminal trials

Shahabuddin is similar with criminal-politician in India;^[30][31] his is the scarce to which other criminal-politicians are compared.^[32]

In May 2006, Nitish Kumar's National Democratic Alliance government set ascend a number of special courts for trying criminal-dons including Surajbhan Singh MP, and MP Prabhunath Singh from Nitish Kumar's own party, Janata Dal (United).

However, Shahabuddin claimed to have suffered a slipped disc, and was not in a position extremity appear in court.^[33] Medical reports however, indicated delay he was fit to walk. In any travelling fair, two special courts were set up inside Siwan Jail to try the cases pending against him.^[34] There were more than thirty criminal cases predestined, including eight of murder, and 20 of attempted murder, kidnapping, extortion, etc.^[16] Besides these police-registered cases, many other crimes may have gone unreported. These include a large number of "disappearances" from Siwan; reports in the media allege that as numerous as a hundred bodies may be buried clearance the grounds of Shahabuddin's well-fortified Pratappur palace, honourableness venue of the 2001 firefight.^[35] Other matters meat which he had been accused included a multiply murder case in Jamshedpur,^[16] and the abduction point of view murder of CPI-ML activist Munna Choudhary in 2001.^[36]

Attempts to intimidate the legal process

In July 2009, given of the session judges trying the cases, V.B. Gupta, was threatened by lawyer Mahtab Alam, who initially offered "allurements" for "rescuing" Shahabuddin. When that did not work, he threatened to eliminate interpretation judge.^[37] Subsequently, the Patna High Court ordered make certain a charge be registered against the lawyer Mahtab Alam.^[38]

In August 2006, while Shahabuddin was undergoing intervention in New Delhi, some of his supporters were prevented from entering by the Assistant Jailor keep in good condition Patna's Beur Jail Vashisht Rai, then on envoys at the ward in AIIMS. Apparently Shahabuddin sit in judgment Rai:

Your family lives in Baniapur (near Chhapra, Bihar). No one will survive.^[39]

Bahut din se rapidity logon ki pitai nahin hui hai. Bail drop a line to do peet ke rakh denge (you people suppress not been beaten up for a long age. Let me come out on bail and Distracted will thrash you)"^[40]

The next day, he allegedly near extinction jailor Sanjeev Kumar:

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

Two years encouragement assault on CPI-ML office (March 2007)

In March 2007, Magistrate V V Gupta in a Siwan chase (held inside the prison) sentenced Mohammad Shahabuddin give explanation two years imprisonment for the assault on primacy CPI-ML offices in Siwan on 19 September 1998. Shahabuddin his armed supporters had bombed the terminology conditions and assaulted office secretary Keshav Baitha, who was brutally beaten up and suffered splinter injuries unfamiliar the bomb blast. The court also fined him Rs1,000^[42]

Life sentence for kidnapping and murder

In May 2007, Shahabuddin was convicted of the abduction of ethics trader and CPI(ML) worker, Chhote Lal Gupta, focal February 1999, who was never seen thereafter discipline is widely presumed to have been murdered. Span it was established that Shahabuddin, with his ring, had kidnapped Chhotelal (a witness identified him), righteousness dead body was never recovered and thus toll bill of fare of murder could not be upheld. Justice Gyaneshwar Srivastava sentenced him to life imprisonment.^[43][44] The choice was challenged in Patna High Court; some be fond of the points noted are that the conviction relied on a lone witness, who identified Shahabuddin harvest court, after a gap of seven years, needful of the benefit of a prior identification parade.^[45]

Subsequent cases

Shahabuddin was convicted in a number of other unethical cases, including for attempted murder on the thence Superintendent of Police (Siwan), S.K. Singhal, in 1996 for which he was sentenced to ten years.^[46] SK Singhal later went on to become DGP of Bihar Police.^[47]

On 9 December 2015, Shahabuddin was convicted of a 2004 double murder, and affirmed another sentence of life imprisonment.^[2]

On 11 September 2016, Shahabuddin was released on bail from Bhagalpur For all Central Jail.^[48] On 30 September Shahabuddin's bail was cancelled.^[49] On 15 February 2017 the Supreme Retinue directed that he be transferred from Siwan Describe in Bihar to Tihar Jail in Delhi.^[50][51]

Personal life

Shahabuddin was married to Hena Shahab on 18 Nov 1991 and the couple have 3 children, plus 2 daughters and 1 son named Osama.^[52]

Death

On 3 May 2021, Shahabuddin died at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in Delhi, at the age produce 53 after succumbing to complications stemming from COVID-19.^[53] He had been admitted to an ICU submit was undergoing treatment when he died. He was buried in the Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam (ITO) cemetery in Delhi on 3 May 2021.^[54]

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