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Publication: DDI News
Date: August 31, 2005
URL: http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2005/08/bihar-will-issue-red-cornor-alert-for.html
The Bihar government is planning to sound
a red corner alert all over the country for the arrest of controversial RJD
MP Mohammad Shahabuddin.
Sources at the state police headquarters said
that the state administration was seriously considering the joint letter of
District Magistrate S K Mull and Police Superintendent Sanjay Singh of Siwan,
in which they had requested a red corner alert be sounded across the country
for the arrest of Shahabuddin.
Through the SOS, the DM requested the state
authorities to complete the formalities for issuing an alert to all police
stations of the country for the arrest of the controversial MP.
Earlier, such nationwide alert was issued
against Mr Shahabuddin by the then Director General of Police D P Ojha.
Eight non-bailable warrants of arrest were
pending against Shahabuddin in connection with different criminal cases related
to the Arms and Explosives Act, Wildlife Act and Arms Act, among others.
Shahabuddin, who was facing 51 criminal cases,
was moving freely all over the country since a special police team from Siwan
went to Delhi to arrest him.
The MP even preffered to miss some of the
sittings of the ongoing session of Parliament in order to avoid his arrest.
Meanwhile, state Chief Secretary G S Kang
said the government was not deliberately delaying the arrest of Shahabuddin
and added that the MP had not come to Bihar for the past ten days. He claimed
that the government was sincerely doing its job.
In the joint letter, the DM and SP of Siwan
said it was impossible to send the district police to arrest Md Shahabuddin,
who was constantly moving.
The district administration had mentioned
that Shahabuddin's arrest was essential for holding free and fair assembly
elections in Siwan.
Earlier, after reviewing the situation in
Bihar, the Election Commission had asked the state administration to seriously
execute all pending non-bailable arrest warrants.
Following constant reminders by the EC, the
state as well as district administration geared up and started executing the
NBWs.
In view of the pending NBW, the controversial
MP chose not to visit Siwan. However, the MP earlier freely moved in other
parts of Bihar during the past two months.
