Siwan (Bihar): Former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin was on Friday, December 11 sentenced to life imprisonment along with three others in connection to 11-year-old brutal murder case of two brothers by pouring acid on them.
Additional District Judge Ajay Kumar Srivastava awarded the life sentence to Shahabuddin and his three accomplices — Rajkumar Sah, Sheikh Aslam and Arif Hussain in connection with the 2004 case that took place in Siwan district of Bihar.
The same court had on Wednesday found the four guilty of charges under sections 302 (murder), 364A (kidnapping for ransom, etc), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC.
The quantum of punishment was pronounced on Friday in the presence of Shahbuddin and others.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 20,000 on Mohammad Shahbuddin in the case.
It is said that three sons of one Chandrashekhar Prasad were abducted from their house at Goshala road by Rajkumar Sah, Sheikh Aslam and Arif Hussain on August 16, 2004 and taken to Pratappur village where acid was poured on Girish and Satish resulting in their death.
Rajeev Raushan, managed to escape while the bodies of the two brothers could not be recovered. However, Rajeev Raushan had appeared before the judge as an eyewitness only to be murdered by assailants on June 16, last year.
Shahabuddin is lodged in the Siwan central jail for the past several years in connection with several cases against him.
He represented Siwan for four times from 1996 to 2009 as member of Lalu Prasad’s party RJD. After his conviction he could not contest Parliamentary elections in 2009 as well the one held in 2014.
His wife Heena Sahab lost the elections on RJD ticket in 2009 as well as in 2014 to Om Prakash Yadav who is now in BJP.
