Patna: Patna High Court disallowed controversial RJD MP from Siwan Mohd Shahabuddin's petition seeking to contest Lok Sabha polls in Bihar by refusing to stay his conviction in a kidnap and murder case but granted him regular bail in it.
A division bench of the High Court comprising Justices Shivakirti Singh and Sheema Ali Khan refused to stay the conviction and disallowed him to fight the elections.
The court had on March 16 reserved its order on two interlocutory applications of the MP seeking bail and suspension of a lower court order convicting him in a kidnap and murder case to pave the way for his contesting the elections from Siwan.
The court ordered the RJD MP to file a bail bond of Rs 10,000 with two sureties of like amount to obtain bail from the trial court.
It also directed Shahabuddin not to leave the Siwan district limits till the trial of the case in superior courts. Though the court's order allowing bail came as a major reprieve for Shahabuddin, he will continue to be in judicial custody in some other cases in which he has already been convicted by the lower court.
I am thankful to the Patna High court for refusing to stay the conviction.
However, why should bail be granted to a person accused of such heinous crimes and that too with a paltry sum of Rs 10000.00 bond. This is chicken feed for a person who deals in crores.
They should be made to rot in jails as long as they continue to file appeals against their conviction. Otherwise they come out and threaten the witnesses and make them change their statements.
They are making a joke of the judicial system of the country.
Once convicted, they should not be allowed to stand for elections notwithstanding any appeals they may make in higher courts.
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