Court turns down bail application of RJD MP Shahabuddin

Patna, Oct 16 (UNI) Patna High Court today dismissed the regular bail petition of the controversial RJD MP Md Shahabuddin in connection with a case related to recovery of foreign correncies, bullet proof jacket and other items from his residence.

Rejecting the bail application, a single bench of the court of justice Navin Sinha directed to complete the trial of this case within six months. The court also directed Md Shahabuddin to cooperate in the trial.

Earlier Siwan police had lodged a case against Md Shahabuddin in Hussainaganj police station after a raid was conducted in his residence at Patrapur village on April 24, 2005.

Police had recovered US $ 100, Dinars, a bullet proof jacket, Pakistani cartridges, firearms of Indian Ordnance Factory, Telescope rifle, night vision device, deer and deer skin.

The MP's father had admitted before the police that all the seized items belonged to Md Shahabuddin.

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