Vanishing pact

Now that the first round of the game has gone against the MP he is left with no option but to go to jail on non-bailable charges of kidnapping for murder of one Munna Chaudhary, a CPI-ML activist in 2001. There are 36 cases in total against the MP.

DGP Ojha remains unassailable and determined to see the MP to jail. On Friday, he recommended that CBI inquire into a case of bank robbery in which Shahabuddin is suspected. A rural bank in Gopalganj had been robbed of Rs 20 lakh in March 2003.

Citing Shahabuddin8217;s alleged links with inter-state and international criminals, the DGP has written to the Home Department that only a CBI inquiry can bring out the truth. Ojha also recommended an inquiry into the sources of the MP8217;s income.

Meanwhile, a BJP delegation led by Opposition leader Sushil Modi and party president Nand Kishore Yadav today met Bihar Governor Rama Jois and requested him to monitor the progress of the Shahabuddin case. The party also demanded that the cases against Shahabuddin be tried outside Bihar. The DGP had earlier ordered that all cases against the MP in Siwan be transferred to Patna.