NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court frowned on Monday at the Nitish Kumar government’s repeated requests seeking urgent hearing on the plea to cancel gangster-turned politician Shahabuddin ’s bail and said “wish you had shown some urgency earlier”.The Bihar government was quick to jump in support of the father of three sons who were allegedly murdered by Shahabuddin‘s men while opposing the RJD leader’s plea through advocate Shoeb Alam for a week’s more time to brief and prepare senior advocate Ram Jethmalani to defend the Patna High Court ’s September 7 order granting bail.Appearing for the father before a bench of Justices P C Ghose and Amitabha Roy, advocate Prashant Bhushan said he has also challenged the HC order granting bail to Shahabuddin in the twin murder case in which he had been convicted and sentenced to life for murdering his two sons by bathing them in acid. His third son, who was a witness in the murder of his brothers, was allegedly killed at the behest of Shahabuddin when he was going to depose as a witness.Bhushan said: “Every single day Sahabuddin remains out of jail, he poses a grave threat to the witnesses. There are 45 criminal cases lodged against him, including nine cases of murder. In ten cases, he has been convicted. Yet the HC granted him bail.”Senior advocate Dinesh Dwivedi, appearing for the Bihar government, said: “There is a genuine apprehension that the father too would be knocked out like the brother who was killed while going to depose before the trial court in the twin murder case.”The bench told Alam that it would post the appeals, one by the father and the other by the state government, for hearing on Wednesday. “Two days are enough to brief Jethmalani in the case. In any case, we do understand that the matter is of extreme urgency, but wish the state had also shown some urgency earlier,” the bench said.Appearing for Shahabuddin, senior advocate Shekhar Naphade said: “In all cases Shahabuddin had been granted bail by the HC. No one bothered to challenge the HC orders. But, today he is being tried by the media.”Naphade also showed to the court tweets of Bhushan criticizing the HC order using ‘intemperate’ language. “As an officer of the court and a lawyer of repute, he must show some restraint while criticizing the HC,” he said.The bench brushed aside Naphade’s diatribe against Bhushan and said: “We will go strictly by record. You produce all documents to support the HC order granting bail. But, we will commence hearing on Wednesday.”Petitioner Chandrakeshwar Prasad, whose two sons were murdered in 2004 and the third one in 2014 while going to depose against Shahabuddin in the case, said the RJD leader ran a crime syndicate spreading terror among citizens in Siwan.“The cursory manner in which the Patna HC granted bail to Shahabuddin in the murder cases despite the gangster being convicted in a twin murder case and facing trial in another murder case is shocking to say the least. He was shifted to Bhagalpur after a raid in Siwan jail revealed that he was using dozens of mobile phones and was running crime syndicate from jail,” Prasad said.While seeking cancellation of bail, the Bihar government had said that Shahabuddin was a “A” category history sheeter, who was beyond reform. Watch Now, Shahabuddin plays victim card in Supreme Court