24 Facts About Mohammad Shahabuddin

Mohammad Shahabuddin was a Criminal, Mafia, Don, politician and former Member of Parliament from the Siwan constituency in the state of Bihar.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was a former member of the National Executive Committee of the Janata Dal and the Rashtriya Janata Dal.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was accused of killing 15 other Communist Party activists, including the former student leader Chandrashekhar Prasad.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was elected for four successive terms to the Indian Parliament between 1996 and 2004 from the Siwan constituency.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was elected for two successive terms to the Bihar Legislative Assembly in 1990 and 1995 from the Ziradei constituency.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was described as a convicted gangster, a bahubhali in the Siwan district, and a close aide of Lalu Prasad Yadav, the president of the Rashtriya Janata Dal.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was born on 10 May 1967 in Partappur village, Husainganj block in Siwan district of Bihar.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was educated in Bihar and earned a Master of Arts and a PhD degree in political science.

Mohammad Shahabuddin won the 1990 and 1995 elections to the Vidhan Sabha, and was elected to the Lok Sabha in 1996 on the JD ticket, after which he grew in stature.

On 16 March 2001 the police were executing a warrant on the president of the local RJD unit, when Mohammad Shahabuddin objected and slapped the arresting officer Sanjiv Kumar, while his men beat up the police.

Mohammad Shahabuddin ran for the Siwan Lok Sabha constituency in 2004, mostly from prison.

In late 2003, eight months before the 2004 general elections, Mohammad Shahabuddin was arrested on charges of abducting Chote Lal Gupta, a Communist Party of India Liberation worker in 1999, who was never seen again.

One petitioner turned out to be a policeman seeking a promotion; Mohammad Shahabuddin called up the police bosses on his mobile phone and arranged things on the spot.

Some arms had the markings of Pakistan ordnance factories, and the then Chief of Police alleged in a report that Mohammad Shahabuddin had ties with the Pakistan intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence.

Mohammad Shahabuddin has been elected 2 times as MLA and 4 times as Lok Sabha MP.

Mohammad Shahabuddin is synonymous with criminal-politician in India; his is the standard to which other criminal-politicians are compared.

However, Mohammad Shahabuddin claimed to have suffered a slipped disc, and was not in a position to appear in court.

In May 2007, Mohammad Shahabuddin was convicted of the abduction of the trader and CPI worker, Chhote Lal Gupta, in February 1999, who was never seen thereafter and is widely presumed to have been murdered.

On 9 December 2015, Mohammad Shahabuddin was convicted of a 2004 double murder, and given another sentence of life imprisonment.

On 11 September 2016, Mohammad Shahabuddin was released on bail from Bhagalpur Special Central Jail.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was married to Hena Shahab on 18 November 1991 and the couple have 3 children, including 2 daughters and 1 son named Osama.

On 1 May 2021, Mohammad Shahabuddin died at the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital in Delhi, at the age of 53 after succumbing to complications stemming from COVID-19.

Mohammad Shahabuddin had been admitted to an ICU and was undergoing treatment when he died.

Mohammad Shahabuddin was buried in the Jadid Qabristan Ahle Islam cemetery in Delhi on 3 May 2021.