By the way, both Lalu and Shahabuddin are condemned prisoners: Lalu in the fodder case and Shahabuddin in two murder cases.
A legal petition has been filed against Lalu in the Jharkhand High Court accusing him of using mobile phones inside the bungalow of the director of the Rajendra Prasad Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) in Ranchi, which has been designated as a prison to house him.
In his petition, BJP’s Anuranjan Ashok has requested a CBI investigation into Lalu’s alleged violation of the jail manual. The convicted RJD supreme has been accused of summoning the NDA MLA Lalan Paswan allegedly asking him to abstain from voting in elections for the post of president he previously held.
According to the jail manual, political gatherings or conversations are prohibited inside prisons.
Former Bihar chief deputy minister Sushil Kumar Modi shared the audio clip that allegedly contained Lalu’s voice on his Twitter account.
लालू यादव ने दिखाई अपनी असलियतलालू प्रसाद यादव द्वारा NDA के विधायक को बिहार विधान सभा अध्यक्ष के लिए होने वाले… https://t.co/TkEj2nFmr2
– Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) 1606281676000
In another tweet, Sushil Modi also reported that Lalan Paswan filed a FIR against Lalu under the Prevention of Corruption Act “for making phone calls from custody and offering a ministerial position that amounts to bribing and seducing a public servant.”
Lalan Paswan presented to FIR in surveillance Thana, Patna against Lalu Pd under the law of prevention of corruption for making te… https://t.co/9GmUlZH7Ha
– Sushil Kumar Modi (@SushilModi) 1606387426000
Lalu, who was initially housed in Ranchi Jail, was admitted to RIMS for health reasons. However, he was recently transferred to the RIMS director’s bungalow after his assistants were detected with COVID-19.
Lalu may be in trouble after the latest controversy surrounding him has come to light.
He is the second RJD leader to generate a line for disobeying jail manuals.
Former RJD MP and feared gangster Shahabuddin.
The former RJD deputy for four terms, Shahabuddin, was also charged with using mobile phones inside Siwan prison. Siwan’s strongman, who had about 50 cases pending against him, allegedly used to have “durbars” inside jail.
Shahabuddin faced trials, among others, for the murder of journalist Rajdeo Ranjan and three sons of Siwan-based Chandrakeshwar Prasad.
Rajdeo Ranjan was shot dead in May 2016 for allegedly publishing news material about Shahabuddin. Chandrakeshwar Prasad’s two sons, Satish and Girish Roshan, were killed in August 2004 for allegedly refusing to pay the extortion money.
A third brother, Rajiv Roshan, was also shot dead on June 6, 2014 when he was going to the trial court to testify as an eyewitness against Shahabuddin.
Shahabuddin sparked a dispute for violating jail manuals when his selfie inside Siwan jail went viral on social media in January 2017.
The murdered Rajdeo Ranjan wife, Asha Rankjan and Asha Ranjan and Chandrakeshwar Prasad, moved to the Supreme Court to request the transfer of Shahabuddin from Siwan prison to Tihar Jail in the national capital on the grounds that a free and fair trial was not possible in Siwan.
Leading attorney Prashant Bhushan filed a case in the Supreme Court on behalf of Chandrakeshwar Prasad.
Serving an order on the petitions, a court of Judges Dipak Misra and Amitava Roy said: “A fair trial is not what the defendant wants in the name of fair trial. A fair trial should alleviate the maximum justice that is individually sought. ”
On February 15, 2017, the Supreme Court ordered the Bihar government to transfer Shahabuddin to Tihar Prison in one week. On February 19, Shahabuddin was taken to Delhi and has been incarcerated in Tihar Jail ever since.
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