No Bihar in Tihar for notorious RJD leader
Shahabuddin has been trying to strike conversation with guards from the Tamil Nadu Special Police
doesn’t know Tamil, interaction is kept to a minimum.
The TSP has guarded Tihar for three decades, their lack of proficiency in Hindi making them less likely to be threatened or influenced. However, some of them had picked up limited communication skills in Hindi, forcing jail officials to deploy a fresh batch for Shahabuddin.
Shahabuddin has been spending most of his time reading books on philosophy and law. “He seems to be a voracious reader and has taken six books from the prison library. He also spends a considerable part of his morning reading newspapers,” added the jail official, who wanted to remain unnamed.
“Unlike most prisoners who look for every opportunity to visit hospitals outside the jail, he has been content with medical treatment inside jail despite receiving treatment for several medical issues,” another official said.
He is allowed to meet visitors twice a week, same as every other inmate in his category of high-security prisoners. So far, his visitors have been limited to friends and lawyers, having been visited by an immediate family member only once.
Shahabuddin is lodged in the same sub-jail that houses other high-profile prisoners like former Haryana chief minister Om Prakash Chautala and gangster Chhota Rajan. Since Chhota Rajan too is produced in court through videoconferencing, the two are lodged in close proximity to each other, but there has not been any interaction between Shahabuddin and the gangster so far, said sources.