Don MP's phones seized in jail raid

JAIL LIFE: Shahbuddin was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 8 in connection with a 1999 murder case.

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New Delhi: A team lead by Siwan District Magistrate Santosh Mall raided the Siwan jail on Tuesday evening and recovered four mobile handsets and one Airtel SIM from the premises.

Two of the four handsets were recovered from controversial RJD MP Md Shahbuddin. Shahbuddin lodged in the jail was in for a big shock when the district and prison authorities launched the surprise raid in his cell.

The two other mobile sets and four chargers were recovered from Sahabuddin’s supporters in the adjoining cell, PTI quoted the district magistrate as saying.

Mall, who led the raid along with Superintendent of Police Sunil Kumar, said he was tipped off about Shahbuddin using mobile phones inside the jail.

“This is a major prison offence and we are looking at all legal aspects before a case is lodged against the MP and others found violating jail manuals,” he said.

Prison manual empowers district magistrate to order additional imprisonment up to two years to an inmate caught violating it. Shahbuddin had been sentenced to life imprisonment by a court on May 8 in connection with kidnapping and suspected murder of a CPI-ML leader Chote Lala Gupta in 1999.