INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
In 2015, a special judge had convicted Mohammad Shahabuddin for the murders
others in a 2004 double murder case in which two brothers were killed for not paying extortion money.A bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan
Gogoi, justices SK Kaul and KM Joseph dismissed at the threshold, the four appeals filed by the convicts against the Patna High Court
judgment."We find no ground to interfere
The Special Leave Petitions are dismissed," the bench said adding that the case was of grievous nature in which a person, who had witnessed
the killing of his brother, was also shot dead.Satish and Girish Roshan were murdered in August 2004 in Siwan for refusing to pay extortion
A third brother, Rajiv Roshan, who was an eyewitness, was shot dead on June 6, 2014.On December 9, 2015, a special judge had convicted
Shahabuddin and his associates for the murders and sentenced them to life imprisonment
On August 30 last year, the high court had upheld their conviction and sentence.
