RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin is no more, claims Tihar Jail DG

The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader was serving lifeimprisonment for murder and was in ICU (Intensive Care Unit) of Deen DayalUpadhyay (DDU) Hospital at the time of writing.

He was diagnosed COVID positive on April 20.

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Instructions to provide proper medical supervision and careto the leader were released a few days back by the Delhi High Court to the AAPgovernment and the prison authority.

The former MP had filed a plea claiming “no separatearrangement was made by the jail authorities” even when his cell inmate wastested COVID positive in April.

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Earlier in the day, news agency ANI claimed death of Shahabuddindue to COVID, which proved to be false, but now official confirmation from theJail DG confirms his demise.