New Delhi: 

Kahan hain? RJD MP Shahabuddin and SP MP Atiq Ahmed arrive at the Parliament on Monday

Five jailed MPs who were brought from various parts of in India to Delhi to take part in the trust vote in parliament and were supposed to spend the nights at Tihar Jail seem to have given prison officials the slip.

Out of the five MPs, most of whom are serving sentences for murder, only Samajwadi Party MP Afzal Ansari turned up at Tihar - that too only on Sunday. The jail authorities now claim to have no information on their whereabouts.

"We have been expecting at least five MPs — Atiq Ahmed, Afzal Ansari, Mohammed Shahabuddin, Umakant Yadav and Suraj Bhan — in the jail for the past two days," Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Prison C R Garg said.

"Only one MP, Ansari, came on Sunday and spent one night in the jail. He left jail number 4 early Monday but did not come back. We have no information about any of them," he said yesterday.

According to highly placed sources, after the parliament session, Ansari was taken to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences on Monday where he stayed overnight.

Besides the five MPs from outside Delhi, RJD MP Pappu Yadav, serving a life sentence for the murder of CPI (ML) legislator in jail number 3, was also let out for the parliament session.

"Of course, they had a wonderful time eating food of their own choice (in parliament). They remained out for as long as they could!"

Garg said they had no knowledge on the whereabouts of RJD MP Shahabuddin, who was brought to the capital from Siwan jail in Bihar to vote for the government.