The RJD leader was arrested just before he left for Siwan. There is a ban on his entry there.
Eighteen more people lost their lives after allegedly consuming illicit liquor in dry Bihar's Siwan and Saran districts, taking the toll in the tragedy to 24, officials said on Thursday.
A man, who had allegedly called up the Lok Sabha Secretariat on Monday and threatened to blow up Parliament building, was taken into custody in Bihar's Siwan district.
In the last few years, a number of similar incidents have taken place in various parts of the state, and though no fatalities have been caused, these have led to questions being raised on the quality of public works in the state.
The arrest warrant was issued after Tiwari announced that he would enter Siwan on April 9. In a letter to Anil on Tuesday, Tiwari charged him with 'infringing a citizen's democratic and constitutional right by exceeding his authority'.
The incidents occurred in 15 districts of the state during the festival held on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court of India has transferred a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) concerning the safety and longevity of bridges in Bihar to the Patna High Court. The court expressed concern over the state government's handling of bridge collapses, noting that officials were suspended after incidents but reinstated after the public outcry subsided. The court also criticized the state's voluminous response to the PIL, which lacked explanations for the collapses. The Patna High Court will now monitor the state's efforts to ensure structural and safety audits of bridges in Bihar.
He was released on the orders of Chief Minister Rabri Devi, sources said.
"It might be a small bridge or causeway. District officials have left for the spot. We are trying to gather more information about the incident," Additional Collector (Saharsa), Jyoti Kumar, said.
The RJD has fielded six women candidates, some of them are wives of bahubalis.
Ramadhar Singh, the jailor of Siwan jail where Shahabuddin is currently lodged, has filed an FIR against Shahabuddin for abusing, misbehaving and threatening him.
Five persons were killed and eight injured when an auto rickshaw carrying students and a pick up van collided in Bihar's Siwan district, triggering violence in the area with locals ransacking a hospital and torching vehicles.
Five bridges, big and small, have collapsed across the state in just over a week. One incident each was reported from Araria, Siwan, East Champaran, Kishanganj and Madhubani districts.
Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin has got 10-year imprisonment in a case under the Arms Act.
Justice Bal Krishna Jha also issued a show cause notice to the DM and the SP of Siwan for letting the RJD MP stay in hospital while in police custody.
Justice Shivakirti Singh granted regular bail to the controversial Lok Sabha member from Siwan in connection with the case registered at Hussainganj police station in Siwan district against him in 2001 for illegally possessing sophisticated firearms. Shahabuddin will, however, not be released as he is serving life sentence for abducting and murdering a CPI-ML activist Chotelal Gupta on May 7, 1999.
The accused say a close aide of former RJD MP Shahabuddin gave them a supari to kill Ranjan.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday embarked on his 'Seva Yatra' to tour all districts of the state to review the implementation of development schemes and the Right to Service Act.
Bihar Governor Buta Singh on Thursday came under attack for transferring Siwan District Magistrate C K Anil and his Gopalganj counterpart K K Pathak.
Janata Dal - United Member of Legislative Assembly Shyambahadur Singh landed in a fresh controversy after TV channels on Friday aired footage which purportedly showed him dancing with girls at a marriage ceremony. The MLA from Badharia in Siwan district is seen dancing in the TV footage at a cultural programme on the night of February 8. Singh had gone to the house of one Ajay Singh at Jafra in Gopalganj district, from where they proceeded to Katalpur village.
Besides, the department has sought an explanation from officials concerned for the collapse of bridges in East Champaran on June 23 and in Madhubani on June 26.
The death of a suspected thief, Govind Rajbhar, in police custody early Friday in Siwan district has angered people in Bihar. Rajbhar is alleged to have been beaten and tortured by the police.
Ranjan was one of the 23 people named in the 'death warrant list' issued in 2007. Seven of them have been killed so far.
The nation on Sunday paid rich tributes to the first President of India, Dr Rajendra Prasad on his 53rd death anniversary.
Eight persons were on Wednesday killed and over 30 injured when a train rammed into an engineering college bus at a manned level crossing in Bihar's Siwan district sparking protests by students who tried to torch the train.
The transferred officers included 22 IAS, 79 IPS, 45 Bihar Administrative Service officers
Bharatiya Janata Party senior leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday claimed that the party had already finalised its candidate for the post of the President, but refused to share the name. "BJP will disclose the name at the right time," Naqvi, who is in Bihar to attend a party meet in Siwan district, said. "The BJP's choice of candidate for the post of the President is an able and non-political person, who is popular and acceptable," Naqvi said.
Buta orders judicial inquiry into police firing in Bihar
Ranjan was shot dead by criminals near the Siwan railway station on Friday.
The ASI has ambitious plans to develop it on the lines of Anand Bhavan in Allahabad, the ancestral house of Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first prime minister of India.
A senior journalist of Hindi daily Hindustan was shot dead in Bihar's Siwan district on Friday nigth by unidentified gunmen, police said.
In yet another case of street justice, two suspected thieves were lynched by a mob in a Bihar village for allegedly stealing a pump set, police said on Thursday. The victims, identified as Mahant Nat and Butan Nat were brutally beaten with bricks, stone and bamboo sticks, after was allegedly caught stealing a pump set in Pokhra vllage in Siwan district. Both victims belong to the poor Nat nomadic community.
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