RJD Leader Shahabuddin Granted Bail After 11 Years Behind Bars
The four-time MP from Siwan spent 11 years in prison and currently faces 40 criminal cases.
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Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) strongman Mohammad Shahabuddin on Saturday walked out of prison on bail after 11 years with much fanfare. He praised party chief Lalu Prasad, while making it clear that there was no love lost between him and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
“For me Lalu Prasad is the leader” and Nitish Kumar is the chief minister “circumstantially”, said the controversial leader, who has been a four-time MP from Siwan, as he emerged out of the Bhagalpur divisional jail and left for Siwan in a convoy of three hundred vehicles.
Various pending cases against Shahabuddin were reopened and he was sent to jail after Kumar had assumed power in 2005.
He was, however, quick to add that it was the court which sent him to jail and the court again which ordered his release from the jail.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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