Controversial RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin has been booked for taking a selfie inside Siwan prison, police confirmed on Tuesday.
“An FIR has been registered against Mohammad Shahabuddin and an unknown person in the selfie matter,” officer-in-charge of Muffasil police station Vinay Pratap Singh said. A case has been registered by Superintendent of Siwan Divisional Jail Bidhu Bhardwaj, he said.
On the basis of a report by a two-member team of the Sub-Divisional Police Officer and the Sub-Divisional officer, District Magistrate Mahendra Kumar ordered the jail superintendent to lodge an FIR in the case.
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Shahabuddin kicked up a fresh controversy in the first week of January when his selfie — taken inside the jail — went viral.
The four-time RJD MP from Siwan is lodged in Siwan jail after the Supreme Court cancelled his bail granted by the Patna High Court in connection with the killing of the prime witness in a murder case.
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