Jailed former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin died of Covid-19 an infection at Delhi’s DDU Hospital on Saturday. He was 53.
Shahabuddin was in essential situation and docs had been planning to shift him to LNJP Hospital, it was learnt earlier within the morning.
This comes days after Delhi High Court’s order on April 28 that Shahabuddin be “supervised regularly by a doctor so that there is no threat to his life”. He was additionally allowed to speak with any member of his household to tell them of his medical situation. If required, the court docket mentioned, a senior physician may additionally do tele-consultation with him.
Shahabuddin was serving life sentence in Tihar Jail for homicide.
Stating that he had contracted the virus on April 20 and was admitted to DDU Hospital, DG (Tihar) Sandeep Goel mentioned: “Information has been received from DDU Hospital about death of Mohd Shahabuddin. He was suffering from Covid-19.”

Data offered by Tihar Jail authorities exhibits that 227 inmates had examined optimistic for Covid-19 till April 23. Sixty jail workers, together with a jail superintendent and two jail docs, had additionally examined optimistic. Four jail inmates have died of Covid-19 thus far, officers mentioned. Recently, gangster Chhota Rajan and former JNU scholar Umar Khalid, each lodged in Tihar, had examined optimistic.

On April 28, Shahabuddin’s attorneys, senior advocate Salman Khurshid and advocate Randhir Kumar, arguing his writ petition earlier than Justice Pratibha M Singh in Delhi High Court, sought instructions to guard his life, monitor his well being, and permit a cell phone to be issued in order that the RJD chief could keep in touch with members of the family.