New Delhi: RJD leader Mohammed Shahabuddin on Friday was sentenced to two years of imprisonment by a Bihar local court for assaulting a CPI-ML worker eight years ago.
Judicial Magistrate Vishwa Vibhuti Gupta found the jailed MP guilty of the charges after the completion of the trial inside Bihar’s Siwan jail on Friday.
The case relates to an attack on CPI-ML's office at Khurmabad in Siwan on September 19, 1998 in which Shahabuddin and his armed supporters were alleged to have damaged furniture and assaulted office secretary Keshav Baitha.
The FIR in the case was filed on October 7, 1998 on the statement of Baitha under sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint), 342 (wrongful confinement) and 448 (house trespass) of IPC and Arms Act.
Shahabuddin is facing 34 cases, including those of murder, attempt to murder, kidnapping and violation of foreign exchange act and arms act.
It is for the first time that Shahabuddin, arrested in Delhi in November 2005, has been convicted in a criminal case.
The judge, however, granted Shahabuddin bail to appeal but he would remain in judicial custody in other criminal cases.
Shahabuddin, who is in judicial custody for the past several months in Siwan, faces disqualification of his Lok Sabha membership after conviction.
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