Shifting me to Tihar illegal: Shahabuddin

New Delhi, November 30

Bihar’s don-turned-politician Mohammad Shahabuddin today pleaded with the Supreme Court that shifting him from Siwan prison to Tihar Jail here would be illegal.

Both prisons and inter-state movement of prisoners were a state subject and any deviation would require the consent of both the states involved in any case, Shahabuddin’s senior counsel Shekhar Naphade contended before the Bench. Though the Bihar government was not opposing the plea for shifting his client to Tihar Jail, the other state, Delhi, was not even a party to the litigation, Naphade argued. — TNS