Mobile phones seized from former MP in jail

PATNA - Three mobile phones were recovered early Friday from the Siwan jail ward housing former Bihar MP Shahabuddin, who has been convicted in seven criminal cases, police said.

Three SIM cards and two chargers were also seized, a police official said.

A team of district officials carried out the raid in jail in Siwan district following a tip-off that Shahabuddin was using mobile phones from behind the bars to influence the ongoing Bihar assembly polls, the official said.