Former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin sentenced to Life for ‘acid bath’

Patna: District court on Friday awarded life sentence to former RJD MP Md. Shahbuddin and three others in connection with the murder to two brothers.

The district court of Siwan which had held him and his three henchmen guilty of brutally murdering two youths by giving them “acid bath” 11 years ago, on Friday pronounced the sentence under section 302 (murder), 201(causing disappearance of evidence and giving false information) and 364(A)(kidnapping for ransom).

Former RJD MP Md. Shahbuddin who was earlier declared by the state police department as Type A history – sheeter, is already facing a life term in a case related to abduction with an intent to murder which was awarded to him in 2007.

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