Exam row: Shahabuddin, ten others booked

RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin was today booked along with 10 others in the latest controversy in which he was charged with taking a law examin...

RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin was today booked along with 10 others in the latest controversy in which he was charged with taking a law examination while being an absconder.

The FIR was lodged at a Muzaffarpur police station against Shahabuddin, principal of local RDS College Tauheed Ahmad, Controller of Examination of the B R Ambedkar University,

Upendra Mishra, and eight others.

According to police investigations, someone else wrote the exam for him, by forging documents. Tirhut range DIG Gupteshwar Pandey said it was a case of impersonation and that the MP was not present for the examination.

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The DIG said the FIR was lodged after the officials concerned of the college and the university were questioned.

Siwan MP Shahabuddin is evading arrest in a couple of cases. The state police have sounded a countrywide red alert notice for his arrest.

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