A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud considered the submission of Additional Solicitor General Aman Lekhi that CBI has not found any incriminating material against the RJD leader.
According to Singh, four youths entered in his office and wanted to know that who had written the news about man arrested for intimidating voters during Panchayat elections a few days ago.
A senior journalist of Hindi daily Hindustan was shot dead in Bihar's Siwan district on Friday nigth by unidentified gunmen, police said.
Modi will start his Sunday election tour with a rally in Chapra, the political bastion of Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad. As per the itinerary, from Chapra he will go to Samastipur to address a public meeting in Housing Board ground, then at Gandhi maidan in Motihari and will end the campaign trip with a rally in Bagaha.
The arrest warrant was issued after Tiwari announced that he would enter Siwan on April 9. In a letter to Anil on Tuesday, Tiwari charged him with 'infringing a citizen's democratic and constitutional right by exceeding his authority'.
'I set out really early because it gets very hot.' 'The soles of my feet burn by the time I have finished going house to house on foot.'
Advocate Prashant Bhushan told the SC that Shahabuddin is a 'class-A history-sheeter who cannot be reformed'.
We're not responsible for his release, says JD-U after BJP's attack.
Justice Shivakirti Singh granted regular bail to the controversial Lok Sabha member from Siwan in connection with the case registered at Hussainganj police station in Siwan district against him in 2001 for illegally possessing sophisticated firearms. Shahabuddin will, however, not be released as he is serving life sentence for abducting and murdering a CPI-ML activist Chotelal Gupta on May 7, 1999.
Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin has got 10-year imprisonment in a case under the Arms Act.
She said she will meet Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to thank him for the speedy trial of Shahabuddin inside the jail that resulted in his conviction and imprisonment.
Bihar Chief Electoral Officer H R Srinivasa said the Election Commission has established a three-tier security system for strong rooms (housing the electronic voting machines) and the counting centres. The inner core is being guarded by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), then there is the Bihar Military Police (BMP) and then the district police, he told reporters.
The court said that after casting his vote, he would be immediately taken back to Siwan jail.
Patna-resident Gaurav Rai has helped save the lives of over 1,100 patients in home isolation in the state capital and other parts of Bihar so far by providing oxygen cylinders free of cost.
The apex court also rebuked Nitish Kumar-led Bihar government for its lax approach in opposing bail granted to the RJD strongman.
Rashtriya Janata Dal MP from Siwan Mohammed Shahabuddin gets three years' rigorous imprisonment
The nation on Sunday paid rich tributes to the first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad on his 53rd death anniversary.
A case of violation of the jail manual has been lodged against the RJD MP.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Gyaneshwar Prasad Srivastava of the special court in Siwan jail also pronounced a fine of Rs 1,000 on him.
He said the Special Auxiliary Police were directed to keep a close watch on the jail.
A Siwan court had sentenced him to life imprisonment for kidnapping a CPI-ML worker in 1999.
Satish, Girish, and Rajiv Roshan were allegedly murdered by Mohammed Shahabuddin's henchmen. Their parents are thankful that Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Bhushan will challenge the former RJD MP's bail order.
It is for the first time that Shahabuddin -- arrested in Delhi in November 2005 -- has been convicted in a criminal case.
Chief Ministers of both states announced Rs 4 lakh ex gratia to the next kin of the deceased.
Shahabuddin was recently shifted to Beur Jail in Patna from Siwan following the Election Commission's directive.
RJD MP Mohammed Shahabuddin arrested in Delhi
A state RJD delegation led by its president Abdul Bari Siddiqui had also petitioned Bihar governor R S Gavai earlier in July seeking specialised treatment for Shahabuddin outside the state.
He was released on the orders of Chief Minister Rabri Devi, sources said.
Four separate chargesheets in as many cases were filed in the court of Siwan Chief Judicial Magistrate A K Barial.
Bihar Governor Buta Singh on Thursday came under attack for transferring Siwan District Magistrate C K Anil and his Gopalganj counterpart K K Pathak.
'At least 6,000 people attended a meal at Shahabuddin's residence in a feast to celebrate his bail. As if the community has no other priorities of channelising such funds for better purposes!,' says Mohammad Sajjad.
Non-bailable warrant issued against the Siwan MP following his failure to appear before the court despite several summons for framing charges in connection with an abduction case.
Justice Bal Krishna Jha also issued a show cause notice to the DM and the SP of Siwan for letting the RJD MP stay in hospital while in police custody.
His name has cropped up in connection with the abduction and suspected murder of CPI-ML activist Munna Chaudhary in 2001.
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