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Shahabuddin's Hizb links come to the fore

J&K police want to question the RJD MP on his alleged links with the pro-Pak group

Patna (Bihar): Jammu and Kashmir Police have reportedly contacted their counterparts in Bihar with a request to allow them to question Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin on his alleged links with the pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahideen.

Mr. Shahabuddin, who has been in judicial custody since his arrest last year in connection with various murder and abduction cases, is now being accused of receiving two consignments of arms from Kupwara in the early part of 2000, including AK assault rifles.

Bihar Police, according to official sources in Jammu and Kashmir, is reluctant to divulge the whereabouts of the MP, saying that he is untraceable.

A Hizbul Mujahideen militant arrested by the police recently has confirmed during interrogation that he had supplied AK rifles and pistols to Mr. Shahabuddin in Delhi. Hizbul Mujahideen Mushtaq Ahmed revealed that the MP had visited Kupwara town on three occasions during which he had fixed a deal for supply of arms and ammunition to him in Delhi. A report in this regard has been forwarded to the Union Home Ministry.

The police are finally preparing a dossier on the criminal antecedents of controversial RJD MP, who, perhaps, best personifies criminalisation of Indian politics.

Mr. Shahabuddin is lodged in Bhagalpur jail. After his recent arrest in Delhi, the police are preparing a dossier on him as desired by the Patna High Court.

Police sources say that the Siwan police have been entrusted with the task as 47 cases relating to murder, kidnapping, illegal possession of arms, filing a wrong affidavit and recovery of foreign currencies have been reportedly registered against him between 1985 and 2005.

Last year, the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Siwan rejected a petition filed on behalf of Mr. Shahabuddin on November 16, seeking his transfer to Siwan jail from Bhagalpur.

Siwan is known as his hometurf where he is like an uncrowned Sultan and where he reportedly ran a parallel government.

Even though he was away from his native village of Siwan for over two years, he had contested and won the parliamentary elections in 2004 from behind the bars.

ANI

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