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{{Short description|Former Member of parliament and Indian Politician}}
'''Mohammad Shahabuddin''' is a Muslim male given name, and in modern usage, surname. It is built from the Arabic words ''[[Muhammad (name)| Mohammad]]'' ({{Langx|ar|مُحَمَّد|translit=Muḥammad}}) and ''[[Shihab al-Din (disambiguation)|Shihab al-Din]]'' ({{langx|ar| شهاب‌ الدین }}). 
{{Distinguish||text=[[Mohamed Shahabuddeen]]}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2015}}
{{Use Indian English|date=March 2020}}


{{Infobox officeholder
It may refer to:
| image              = Mohammad shahabuddin.jpg
* [[Muḥammad Shahābuddīn Ghorī]] (1144–1206), [[Ghurid dynasty|Sultan of the Ghurid Empire]]
| caption            =
* [[Muhammad Shahabuddin]] (1895–1971), former Chief Justice of Pakistan
| office              =
* [[Mohamed Shahabuddeen]] (1931–2018), the former [[Vice President of Guyana]]
| office1            = [[Member of Parliament]], [[Lok Sabha]]
* [[Mohammed Shahabuddin]] (born 1949), the incumbent [[President of Bangladesh]]
| termstart1          = 1996
* [[Md. Shahab Uddin]] (born 1954), Bangladeshi Minister.
| termend1            = 2009
* [[Mohammad Shahabuddin (Indian politician)]] (1967–2021), Indian politician from Bihar
| preceded1          = [[Brishin Patel]]
* [[Nawabzada Shahabuddin Khan]]
| succeeded1          = [[Om Prakash Yadav]]
| office2            = [[Member of Legislative Assembly|Member]] of [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]]
| termend2            = 1996
| termstart2          = 1992
| constituency1      = [[Siwan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Siwan]]
| constituency2      = [[Ziradei (Vidhan Sabha constituency)|Ziradei]]
| birth_date          = {{birth date|df=yes|1967|5|10}}
| birth_place        = Pratappur, [[Bihar]], India
| death_date          = {{death date and age|df=yes|2021|5|1|1967|5|10}}
| death_place        = [[Delhi]], India
| nationality        = Indian
| spouse              = Hena Shahab
| children            = 3 including Osama Shahab and Hera Shahab
| party              = [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]]
| otherparty          = [[Janata Dal]]
| name                = Shahabuddin
}}


'''Dr. Mohammad Shahabuddin''' (10 May 1967 – 1 May 2021)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tewary|first=Amarnath|date=2021-05-01|title=Jailed ex-RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin dies of COVID-19|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/jailed-ex-rjd-mp-mohammad-shahabuddin-dies-of-covid-19/article34456482.ece|access-date=2021-05-01|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|date=1 May 2021|others=[[Press Trust of India]]|title=Jailed Ex-RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin Dies Of Covid At Delhi Hospital|url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/jailed-ex-rjd-mp-mohammad-shahabuddin-dies-of-covid-at-delhi-hospital-2425861|access-date=2021-05-01|website=[[NDTV]]}}</ref> was a politician and former [[Member of Parliament]] from the [[Siwan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Siwan constituency]] in the state of [[Bihar]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/research/mohammad-shahabuddin-the-bahubali-of-bihar-is-back/|title=Mohammad Shahabuddin:thakur navneet singh was also arrested meanwhile The Bahubali of Bihar is back|date=15 September 2016|website=[[Indian Express]]}}</ref> He was a former member of the National Executive Committee of the [[Janata Dal]] and the [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/rjd-drops-shahabuddin-from-national-executive-wife-hina-makes-entry-as-rabri-devi-becomes-vp-1652777-2020-03-05|title=RJD drops Shahabuddin from national executive, wife Hina makes entry as Rabri Devi becomes VP|last=Singh|first=Rohit Kumar|date=5 March 2020|website=[[India Today]]|language=en|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref> Shahabuddin was disqualified from contesting elections following his conviction for the kidnapping and disappearance of Chote Lal Gupta, an activist of the [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]] for which he was serving a [[Life Sentence|life sentence]].<ref>{{cite news
{{given name|type=both}}
| title = 31 cases against Shahabuddin, charges framed in eight cases
| publisher = [[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]], [[Chandigarh]]
| url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070509/main2.htm
| date = 8 May 2007
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref> He was also accused of killing 15 other [[Communist party|Communist Party]] activists, including the former student leader [[Chandrashekhar Prasad]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main30.asp?filename=Ne020607Betrayed_by.asp|title=Betrayed by Revolution: "'The CPI (ML) hails Chandrashekhar as a martyr. But his aged mother feels her son's sacrifice was in vain''|date=2 September 2016|publisher=[[Tehelka]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310142820/http://archive.tehelka.com/story_main30.asp?filename=Ne020607Betrayed_by.asp|archive-date=10 March 2016|access-date=2 September 2016}}</ref>


Shahabuddin was elected for four successive terms to the [[Indian parliament|Indian Parliament]] between 1996 and 2004 from the Siwan constituency.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha-2019/story/siwan-lok-sabha-seat-uttar-pradesh-hena-shabab-kavita-singh-1511468-2019-04-27|title=In Siwan Lok Sabha seat, wives of two dons take on each other|last=Srivastava|first=Amitabh|date=27 April 2019|website=[[India Today]]|language=en|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref> He was also elected for two successive terms to the [[Bihar Legislative Assembly]] in 1990 and 1995 from the [[Ziradei constituency]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/jan/08/jailed-gangster-shahabuddin-moves-sc-against-solitary-confinement-in-tihar-2086930.html|title=Jailed gangster Shahabuddin moves SC against 'solitary confinement' in Tihar|date=8 January 2020|website=[[The New Indian Express]]|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref> His wife, Hena Shahab, has contested from the Siwan constituency as the candidate from the [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] following his disqualification and has been described as a proxy candidate.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/india-news-proxies-of-bahubalis-bihar-voters-caught-between-the-devil-and-the-deep-sea/328432|title=Proxies Of Bahubalis: Bihar Voters Caught Between The Devil And The Deep Sea|last=Jha|first=Giridhar|date=9 April 2019|website=[[Outlook India]]|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref>
[[Category:Arabic-language masculine given names]]
 
[[Category:Masculine given names]]
Shahabuddin was described as a convicted gangster,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/india/friends-family-get-key-place-lalus-party-shahhabuddin-left-1502863122.html|title=Friends and family get key place in Lalu's party, Shahhabuddin left out|last=Chaurasia|first=Manoj|date=2020-03-05|website=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]]|language=en-US|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> a ''bahubhali'' ([[Strongman (politics)|strongman]]) in the [[Siwan district]],<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-dreaded-bahubali-mohammad-shahabuddin-116091500255_1.html|title=All you need to know about the dreaded 'Bahubali' Mohammad Shahabuddin|date=2016-09-15|work=[[Business Standard India]]|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref> and a close aide of [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]], the president of the [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]].
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mohammad Shahabuddin}}
 
== Early life and education ==
Mohammad Shahabuddin was born on 10 May 1967 in the village of Pratappur, in [[Siwan district]] of [[Bihar]]. He was educated in Bihar and earned a [[Master of Arts]] and a [[PhD]] degree in [[political science]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/mohammad-shahabuddin-criminal-record-bihar-siwan-all-you-need-to-know-340582-2016-09-12|title=Dreaded Bahubali from Bihar: All you need to know about Shahabuddin, the don who made Siwan tremble|date=12 September 2016|website=[[India Today]]|language=en|access-date=2020-04-01}}</ref>
 
== Political career ==
In the early 1990s, Shahabuddin came into the political limelight, joining the [[Janata Dal]] 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]] in 1996 on the JD ticket, after which he grew in stature.
With [[Lalu Prasad]] holding sway over the then state government of Bihar, and the formation of the [[Rashtriya Janata Dal]] in 1997, Shahabuddin's power increased dramatically.
A report by the [[People's Union for Civil Liberties]] in 2001 states:
: The patronage and de facto immunity from legal action offered to him by the RJD government gradually made him a law unto himself giving him an aura of invincibility. Since the police turned a blind eye to his criminal activities and allowed him to turn Siwan district into his fiefdom where his fiat ran. Shahabuddin's reign of terror was so complete that nobody dared depose against him in cases in which he was an accused.<ref name=pucl>
{{cite journal
| title = Encounter Between the Police and Md. Shahabuddin's Group at Pratappur, District-Siwan on 16.03.2001: The Report of Bihar and Jharkhand PUCL
| author = People's Union for Civil Liberties
| author-link = People's Union for Civil Liberties
| journal = PUCL Bulletin
| url = http://www.pucl.org/reports/Bihar/2001/shahabuddin.htm
|date=October 2001
}}</ref>
 
=== Police firefight ===
 
On 16 March 2001 the police were executing a warrant on the president of the local RJD unit, when Shahabuddin objected and slapped the arresting officer Sanjiv Kumar,<ref name="pucl" /> while his men beat up the police.
The police then re-grouped in strength and a pitched battle was launched on Shahabuddin's house, with help being sought from other police units in the vicinity, including one from [[Uttar Pradesh]].
 
By the early 2000s, Shahabuddin was running a parallel administration in Siwan, holding [[sharia]] inspired khap [[panchayats]] to settle family and land disputes, fixing doctors’ consultancy fees, and arbitrating on marital problems.<ref>{{cite web|title=The govt of Siwan |author=irshad azmi |publisher=[[Mumbai Mirror]]/SiwanTimes Blog |url=http://www.siwantimes.blogspot.com/ |date=4 December 2005 |access-date=8 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060421142008/http://www.siwantimes.blogspot.com/ |archive-date=21 April 2006 }}</ref> In 2005, the Siwan [[District magistrate|District Magistrate]] described him as a habitual criminal.<ref name="patnadaily">
{{cite news
| title = Shahabuddin is a Habitual Criminal; Says Siwan DM
| publisher = Patna Daily
| url = http://www.patnadaily.com/news05/april/042105/siwan_dm_justifies_ban.html
| date = 21 April 2005
| access-date = 4 June 2007
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230254/http://www.patnadaily.com/news05/april/042105/siwan_dm_justifies_ban.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref>
 
== 2004 elections ==
 
Shahabuddin ran for the [[Siwan (Lok Sabha constituency)|Siwan Lok Sabha constituency]] in 2004, mostly from prison. In late 2003, eight months before the [[2004 Indian general elections|2004 general elections]], Shahabuddin was arrested on charges of abducting Chote Lal Gupta, a [[Communist Party of India (Marxist–Leninist) Liberation]] worker in 1999, who was never seen again. Instead of staying in prison, he arranged to have himself shifted to the Siwan hospital on medical grounds; there, a complete floor was set aside for him. Here he conducted meetings organizing his elections, and anyone could walk in to meet him, subject to checks by his bodyguards. Every afternoon at four, he held audience for his subjects, who arrived to meet their ''Saheb'' (boss), and to get their problems resolved.<ref name="bbc">
{{cite news|author=Jyotsna Singh|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3645317.stm|title=Jail no bar for Bihar candidates|date=21 April 2004|access-date=8 May 2007|work=BBC News}} BBC report from Siwan on the eve of elections 2004.</ref> One petitioner turned out to be a policeman seeking a promotion;<ref name="saba">{{cite conference|author=Saba Naqvi Bhoumick|date=April 2005|title=The Saheb of Siwan|location=New Delhi|publisher=Penguin|isbn=0143032445|book-title=First Proof – The Penguin Book of New Writing from India I}}</ref> Shahabuddin called up the police bosses on his mobile phone and arranged things on the spot. For another petitioner, he called up a minister in Delhi. Another petitioner, wishing to resolve a land dispute, brought him a rifle as a gift, right there in his prison.<ref name=saba />
 
Although the elections saw little activity by the opposition – every shop carried a photograph of Shahabuddin, and according to a [[BBC]] report:
: There is almost no sign of the opposition campaigning in the constituency. One villager, pleading that his identity should not be disclosed, said: "Do you want to get us hanged by telling you what we feel about elections here and who we would like to vote for?"<ref name=bbc />
 
Several phone booth owners and other businessmen were killed after putting up banners or posters of opponents.<ref name=pioneer>
{{cite news
| title = After ballot, now bullet rules in Shahabuddin's Siwan
| author = Amarnath Tewary
| publisher = The Pioneer
| url = http://www.hvk.org/articles/0604/216.html
| date = 23 June 2004
| access-date = 2 June 2007
}}</ref>
 
A few days before the election, the Patna [[High Courts of India|High Court]] directed the state government to return Shahabuddin to jail, instead of to Siwan hospital.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Jail Siwan MP properly: Patna HC
| publisher = [[Times of India]]
| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/636585.cms
| date = 24 April 2004
| access-date = 4 June 2007
}}</ref>
 
=== Results and aftermath ===
 
Shahabuddin won comfortably, though the second place finisher [[Om Prakash Yadav]] of the [[Janata Dal (United)]] party, had 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.<ref>
[[Election Commission of India]] website; [[1999 Indian general election|1999 general elections]] Siwan constituency [http://archive.eci.gov.in/GE1999/pollupd/pc/states/s04/pconst05.htm results website]</ref> Within days of these results being announced, nine party workers of the [[Janata Dal (United)]] were killed, and a large number were beaten up; it is widely believed that this was a retaliation for daring to put up a credible fight.<ref name="saba" /> Harendra Kushawaha, the mukhia (chief of [[Panchayat]] or village council) of the Bhanta Pokhar village where Om Prakash Yadav had a strong majority, was shot dead at a government office.<ref name="pioneer" /> After several bullets were fired at Om Prakash Yadav's house, the civil authorities assigned him a posse of eight armed policemen as bodyguards.<ref name="saba" />
 
During the elections, largescale rigging and booth capturing were reported from as many as 500 polling stations<ref name="pioneer" />{{Dead link|date=May 2021}}
and re-polling was ordered by the autonomous election conducting body, [[Election Commission of India]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} In 2005 a case was filed against Shahabuddin that he had lied in his electoral declaration; whereas he had said he had been named in 19 cases, at the time, there were 34 cases pending against him.<ref name="anand">
{{cite news
| title = Raids at Shahabuddin's house yield firearms
| author = Anand Mohan Sahay
| work = rediff.com
| url = http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/apr/24bihar.htm
| date = 24 April 2005
}}</ref> Despite being the elected representative of the region, he was forbidden from entering Siwan for six months in 2005, since he was perceived as a security threat.<ref name="patnadaily" />
 
=== Home arsenal (April 2005) ===
 
In April 2005, a police raid led by then Siwan S.P. Ratna Sanjay with the support of [[District magistrate]] Siwan C. K. Anil on Shahabuddin's house in Pratappur helped recover illegal arms such as [[AK-47]]s, and other military weaponry authorized for possession only by the army, including [[night-vision goggles]] and [[Laser guidance|laser-guided]] guns.<ref name="anand" /> Some of the arms had the markings of Pakistan ordnance factories, and the then Chief of Police alleged in a report that Shahabuddin had ties with the Pakistan intelligence agency [[Inter-Services Intelligence]].<ref>
{{cite web
| title = Criminalisation of Politics in Bihar
| publisher = indian-elections.com
| url = http://www.indian-elections.com/regional-issues/criminalisation-bihar.html
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref> Subsequently, eight non-bailable warrants were issued for arresting Shahabuddin.<ref name=":2" />
 
The Delhi police and a special team sent from Bihar could not arrest him for over three months due to his political clout, despite living in his official assigned quarter in Delhi, and attending parliament.<ref name=":2">
{{cite news
| title = RJD minister quits, Shahabuddin held
| publisher = Tribune News Service
| url = http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051106/main1.htm
| date = 6 November 2005
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref> Police were finally able to arrest him from his official residence in November 2005. Subsequently, he was refused bail by the [[Supreme Court of India]],<ref>
{{cite news
| title = SC dismisses Shahabuddin bail application
| author = United News of India
| author-link = United News of India
| publisher = indlawnews.com
| url = http://www.indlawnews.com/009BABBCB0EA52D9A07A7315F1B853BC
| date = 2 February 2007
| access-date = 8 May 2007
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928011211/http://www.indlawnews.com/009BABBCB0EA52D9A07A7315F1B853BC <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 28 September 2007}}</ref> where he was asked at one point:
: By virtue of being an MP, are you entitled to keep these weapons, including a night vision device, when even the police, CRPF and other security agencies do not have it and only the army possesses it?<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Why do you need arms? Supreme Court asks Shahabuddin
| author = The Hindu Legal Correspondent
| work = [[The Hindu]]
| url = http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/09/stories/2007010917191200.htm
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070122025117/http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/09/stories/2007010917191200.htm
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 22 January 2007
| date = 9 January 2007
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref>
 
=== Political legacy ===
His wife Heena Shahab ran unsuccessfully for his former seat in parliament in 2009, 2014, and 2019 as a member of the RJD party.<ref>{{Cite news|agency=Press Trust of India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/elections-2014/no-modi-wave-in-siwan-claims-shahabuddin-s-wife-114032300101_1.html|title=No Modi wave in Siwan, claims Shahabuddin's wife|date=2014-03-23|work=Business Standard India|access-date=2020-03-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.business-standard.com/elections/lok-sabha-elections-2019/bihar/siwan-election-results-18_1707.html|title=Siwan Lok Sabha Election Results 2019: Siwan Election Result 2019 {{!}} Siwan Winning MP & Party {{!}} Siwan Lok Sabha Seat|last=Standard|first=Business|website=business-standard.com|access-date=2020-03-26}}</ref>
 
== Criminal trials ==
 
Shahabuddin is synonymous with criminal-politician in India;<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.firstpost.com/politics/lalu-shahabuddin-tape-bjp-dares-bihar-cm-nitish-kumar-to-act-against-criminal-political-nexus-3427830.html | title=Lalu-Shahabuddin tape: BJP dares Bihar CM Nitish Kumar to act against 'criminal-political nexus' | publisher=Firstpost | date=6 May 2017 | accessdate=2 May 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/mohammad-shahabuddin-criminal-record-bihar-siwan-all-you-need-to-know-340582-2016-09-12 | title=Dreaded Bahubali from Bihar: All you need to know about Shahabuddin, the don who made Siwan tremble | publisher=India Today | date=12 September 2016 | accessdate=2 May 2021}}</ref> his is the standard to which other criminal-politicians are compared.<ref>{{cite news|author=Sanjay|date=8 April 2007|title=SP fears the wrath of a spurned don|publisher=[[Indian Express]]|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/story/30353.html|access-date=24 May 2007}}</ref>
 
In May 2006, [[Nitish Kumar]]'s [[National Democratic Alliance (India)|National Democratic Alliance]] government set up 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 to appear in court.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Shahabuddin, the Manipulator
| author = Ashok Pandey (letter / blog)
| publisher = Patna Daily
| url = http://www.patnadaily.com/readerswrite/2006/jun/ashok_pandey1.html
| date = 18 June 2006
| access-date = 4 June 2007
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230336/http://www.patnadaily.com/readerswrite/2006/jun/ashok_pandey1.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref> Medical reports however, indicated that he was fit to walk.
In any event, two special courts were set up inside Siwan Jail to try the cases pending against him.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Shahabuddin to face fast track court
| author = Dipak Mishra
| publisher = [[Times of India]]
| url = http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1585505.cms
| date = 29 May 2006
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref> There were more than thirty criminal cases pending, including eight of murder, and 20 of attempted murder, kidnapping, extortion, etc.<ref name="patnadaily" /> 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 many as a hundred bodies may be buried on the grounds of Shahabuddin's well-fortified Pratappur palace, the venue of the 2001 firefight.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Srivatsa Krishna |date=23 May 2005 |title=Wanted: Men With Guts |publisher=[[Outlook_(Indian_magazine)|Outlook]] |url=http://www.blogandhra.com/ap/content/view/15/2/ |url-status=dead |access-date=4 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009034730/http://www.blogandhra.com/ap/content/view/15/2/ |archive-date=9 October 2007}}</ref> Other matters in which he had been accused included a triple murder case in [[Jamshedpur]],<ref name="patnadaily" /> and the abduction and murder of CPI-ML activist Munna Choudhary in 2001.<ref>
{{cite news|author=Press Trust of India|author-link=Press Trust of India|date=21 May 2007|title=Fresh setback to RJD MP Shahabuddin|publisher=[[Hindustan Times]], Patna|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/htsite/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=dde4d20a-5bab-4ea3-b24c-5185188463fb&&Headline=Fresh+setback+to+RJD+MP+Shahabuddin+|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043950/http://www.hindustantimes.com/htsite/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?id=dde4d20a-5bab-4ea3-b24c-5185188463fb&&Headline=Fresh+setback+to+RJD+MP+Shahabuddin+|url-status=dead|archive-date=30 September 2007|access-date=4 June 2007}}</ref>
 
=== Attempts to intimidate the legal process ===
In July 2009, one of the session judges trying the cases, V.B. Gupta, was threatened by lawyer Mahtab Alam, who initially offered "allurements" for "rescuing" Shahabuddin. When this did not work, he threatened to eliminate the judge.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Shahabuddin associate threatens judge
| publisher = [[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]
| url = http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=402296
| archive-url = https://archive.today/20130130233248/http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=402296
| url-status = dead
| archive-date = 30 January 2013
| date = 28 July 2006
}}</ref> Subsequently, the Patna [[High Courts of India|High Court]] ordered that a charge be [[First Information Report|registered]] against the lawyer Mahtab Alam.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Court Orders FIR Against Siwan MP's Lawyer
| publisher = Patna Daily
| url = http://www.patnadaily.com/news2006/july/073006/court_orders_fir_lodged.html
| date = 30 July 2006
}}</ref>
 
In August 2006, while Shahabuddin was undergoing treatment in [[New Delhi]], some of his supporters were prevented from entering by the Assistant Jailor of Patna's Beur Jail Vashisht Rai, then on deputation at the ward in [[AIIMS]]. Apparently Shahabuddin told Rai:
: Your family lives in Baniapur (near [[Chhapra]], Bihar). No one will survive.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Shahabuddin in Trouble, Again!
| publisher = Patna Daily
| url = http://www.patnadaily.com/news2006/aug/082806/fir_against_shahabuddin.html
| date = 28 August 2006
| access-date = 4 June 2007
|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230317/http://www.patnadaily.com/news2006/aug/082806/fir_against_shahabuddin.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref>
 
: ''Bahut din se tum logon ki pitai nahin hui hai. Bail hone do peet ke rakh denge'' (you people have not been beaten up for a long time. Let me come out on bail and I will thrash you)"<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Fresh FIR against Shahabuddin
| author = PTI, Siwan
| url = http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=469946
| date = 2 May 2007
| access-date = 4 June 2007
}}</ref>
 
The next day, he allegedly threatened jailor Sanjeev Kumar:
: ''Tadpa tadpa ke maarenge'' (I will torture you slowly to death).<ref>
{{cite news
| title = After police officer, now jailor files FIR against Shahabuddin
| author = PTI, Siwan
| publisher = [[Outlook (Indian magazine)|Outlook]]
| url = http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=470186
| date = 3 May 2007
| access-date = 4 June 2007
}}</ref>
 
=== Two years for assault on CPI-ML office (March 2007) ===
 
In March 2007, Magistrate V V Gupta in a Siwan court (held inside the prison) sentenced
Mohammad Shahabuddin to two years imprisonment for the assault on the CPI-ML offices in Siwan on 19 September 1998. Shahabuddin  his armed supporters had bombed the premises and assaulted office secretary Keshav Baitha, who was brutally beaten up and suffered splinter injuries from the bomb blast. The court also fined him Rs1,000<ref name=indexp>
{{cite news
| title = Shahabuddin gets two years imprisonment
| author = Jai Prakash Yadav
| publisher = Indian Express
| url = http://www.indianexpress.com/story/24656.html
| date = 3 March 2007
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref>
 
=== Life sentence for kidnapping and murder ===
 
In May 2007, Shahabuddin was convicted of the abduction of the trader and CPI(ML) worker, Chhote Lal Gupta, in February 1999, who was never seen thereafter and is widely presumed to have been murdered. While it was established 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.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Shahabuddin convicted in kidnapping case, acquitted in two
| author = Sanjay Singh / PTI
| publisher = [[Daily News and Analysis]], Mumbai
| url = http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1094895
| date = 5 May 2007
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref><ref>
{{cite news
| title = Indian MP given life for kidnap
| author = Amarnath Tewary
| work = BBC News
| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6633831.stm
| date = 8 May 2007
| access-date = 8 May 2007
}}</ref> The verdict was challenged in [[Patna]] High Court; some of the points noted are that the conviction relied on a lone witness, who identified Shahabuddin in court, after a gap of seven years, without the benefit of a prior identification parade.<ref>
{{cite news
| title = Hearing on Shahabuddin deferred
| publisher = [[CNN-IBN]]
| url = http://www.ibnlive.com/news/hearing-on-shahabuddin-deferred/41550-3.html
| date = 28 May 2007
| access-date = 4 June 2007
}}</ref>
 
=== Subsequent cases ===
Shahabuddin was convicted in a number of other criminal cases, including for attempted murder on the then Superintendent of Police, S.K. Singhal, in 1996 for which he was sentenced to ten years.<ref>[http://www.indianexpress.com/news/shahabuddin-gets-10-years/213727/ Shahabuddin gets 10 years]. Indian Express (31 August 2007). Retrieved on 2015-10-26.</ref>
 
On 9 December 2015, Shahabuddin was convicted of a 2004 double murder, and given another sentence of life imprisonment.<ref name=":1" />
 
On 11 September 2016, Shahabuddin was released on bail from Bhagalpur Special Central Jail.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-11|title=Out on bail, Shahabuddin takes dig at Bihar CM Nitish Kumar|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/out-on-bail-shahabuddin-takes-dig-at-bihar-cm-nitish-kumar-3024544/|access-date=2021-05-01|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> On 30 September Shahabuddin's bail was cancelled.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-09-30|title=Supreme Court to pronounce order on Shahabuddin's bail cancellation|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/sc-supreme-court-to-pronounce-order-on-shahabuddins-bail-cancellation-3057225/|access-date=2021-05-01|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}</ref> On 15 February 2017 the Supreme Court directed that he be transferred from Siwan Jail in Bihar to [[Tihar Jail]] in Delhi.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/shahabuddin-s-transfer-to-tihar-jail-begins-amid-tight-security/story-kDuJtHCfj9N1VHWN9YLiTK.html|title=Tihar-bound Shahabuddin taken to Delhi by sleeper class}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bhaskar.com/news/c-268-shahabuddin-from-siwan-jail-to-tihar-jail-off-pt0171-NOR.html|title=शहाबुद्दीन को तिहाड़ में शिफ्ट किया जाएगा,आधी रात को सीवान जेल से निकाला}}</ref>
 
== Death ==
On 1 May 2021, Shahabuddin died at the [[Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Hospital, Shimla|Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital]] in [[Delhi]], at the age of 53 after succumbing to complications stemming from [[COVID-19]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-05-01|title=Mohammad Shahabuddin, former RJD MP passes away in Delhi hospital due to COVID-19 complications|url=https://english.jagran.com/india/mohammad-shahabuddin-former-rjd-mp-passes-away-in-delhi-hospital-due-to-covid19-complications-10026235|access-date=2021-05-04|website=Jagran English}}</ref> He had been admitted to an ICU and was undergoing treatment when he died. He was buried in the Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam (ITO) cemetery in Delhi on 3 May 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Last rites of ex-Bihar MP Mohammad Shahabuddin held in Delhi|url=https://www.etvbharat.com/english/national/state/delhi/last-rites-of-ex-bihar-mp-mohammad-shahabuddin-held-in-delhi/na20210503222212927|access-date=2021-05-04|website=ETV Bharat News|language=en}}</ref>
 
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