New Delhi: The Patna High Court on Monday adjourned till May 30 hearing on the appeal of incarcerated RJD Lok Sabha member, Mohammed Shahabuddin, against a Siwan court order, which sentenced him to life imprisonment for kidnapping a CPI-ML worker in 1999.
A division bench comprising Justices S K Singh and S A Khan deferred the hearing till Wednesday after Shahabuddin's counsel sought time to present his argument.
The appeal against the May eight verdict of a special court in Siwan had been filed by Shahabuddin's counsel Rajesh Kumar Singh.
In the petition on May 24, the controversial RJD MP from Siwan described the lower court order as ‘unwarranted’ and had said he was convicted on the basis of the statement of a lone eyewitness, who identified him after a gap of seven years and nine months of the kidnap of CPI-ML worker Chotelal Gupta, allegedly by him.
Shahabuddin had argued that prior to his identification in the court no test identification parade was held.
Additional District and Sessions judge Gyaneshwar Prasad Srivastava had on May eight sentenced Shahabuddin to life imprisonment besides imposing a fine of Rs 10,000.
The judge had on May five pronounced him guilty under Section 364 (kidnapping or abduction in order to murder) in the case relating to abduction of Chote Lal Gupta on February 7, 1999.
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