Mohammad Shahabuddin

Who is Mohammad Shahabuddin?

Mohammad Shahabuddin is one of India's most powerful criminal-politicians and also known as robinhood for his good deeds. Shahabuddin is possibly the most prominent criminal-politician in India today; his is the standard to which other criminal-politicians are compared. He was four times Member of Parliament from Siwan, Bihar, with the Rashtriya Janata Dal party of Lalu Prasad Yadav, and 2-time MLA in the Bihar Vidhan Sabha, he is currently serving a life sentence for kidnapping with intent to murder. Because of this conviction, he was not permitted to contest in the 2009 general election. He is also under trial in more than thirty criminal cases including eight of murder, twenty of attempted murder, as well as kidnapping, extortion, etc. http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070509/main2.htm"31 cases against Shahabuddin, charges framed in eight cases". The Tribune, Chandigarh. 8 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-08.

Shahabuddin was elected to four successive terms in the Indian Parliament from 1996-2008. In the 2009 general election, the RJD party had put up his wife Hena Shahab from Siwan constituency in Bihar, but his long-time opponent, Om Prakash Yadav, defeated her by 63,000 votes.