A proclamation and property attachment notice was on Monday pasted at the house of Laddan Mian, a close associate of jailed ex-Rashtriya Janata Dal MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, in connection with the murder of a journalist in Siwan earlier this month.
Ranjan was one of the 23 people named in the 'death warrant list' issued in 2007. Seven of them have been killed so far.
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Siwan Superintendent of Police told ANI that the two are being grilled to procure more details regarding the shocking murder.
His name has cropped up as an accused in journalist Rajdeo Ranjan murder case.
The apex court directed the CBI to file a status report of its investigation before it on October 17, the next date of hearing.
Bihar Police Additional Director General Sunil Kumar had earlier said that the five men were engaged by contract killer Mian, known to be close to Shahabuddin.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday sacked its recalcitrant Bihar member of legislative council Tunnaji Pandey whose utterances against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar were putting a strain on the tenuous relations between the two alliance partners.
Rajdeo, who was the Siwan bureau chief of the newspaper, was shot dead on May 13 at a busy fruit market near Siwan railway station.
Bihar Director General of Police P K Thakur on Monday said that the ongoing investigation into the killing of a senior journalist in Siwan district had suggested that a 'supari' (contract) had been given to kill him.
The accused say a close aide of former RJD MP Shahabuddin gave them a supari to kill Ranjan.
He was medically examined then shifted him to jail number 2, whose other notable inmates include gangster Chhota Rajan.
Prime suspect Mohammed Kaif is in judicial custody after he surrendered in a Siwan court on September 21.
He was not comfortable with the bahubali politician's presence in Siwan after his release.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on Monday a plea seeking cancellation of bail granted to convicted gangster-turned-RJD leader Mohammad Shahabuddin by Patna High Court in a case pertaining to the killing of a youth in Siwan town of Bihar.
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The former RJD leader was released on bail in the Rajiv Roshan murder case after 11 years, reports M I Khan.
The widow of Rajdeo Ranjan, the journalist who was gunned down, has said the killers had a connection with someone in jail.
CBI sources said a team will soon leave for Siwan after a case is registered by it in the murder of Ranjan.
Ex-RJD MP has been charged with murder and criminal conspiracy in the killing of journalist Rajdeo Ranjan.
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.
President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita Devi on Friday boarded a special train from Safdarjung railway station in New Delhi for his native place in Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
Three persons, including Upendra Singh, a history sheeter allegedly linked to the Rashtriya Janata Dal strongman and former Lok Sabha MP from Siwan Mohammed Shahabuddin have been detained but no arrests have been made so far.
Mohammad Shahabuddin, in prison for over a decade, still inspires fear, a reminder of the 'jungle raj' when political murders were commonplace in Bihar.
For the moment, Siwan is once again Shahabuddin's home.
'I will get justice at last,' says the feared RJD leader.
Ranjan was shot dead by criminals near the Siwan railway station on Friday.
Many bahubalis have fielded their wives and relatives as proxies.
The last time a President travelled by train was in 2006 when A P J Abdul Kalam boarded a special train from Delhi to Dehradun to attend the passing-out parade of the Indian Military Academy cadets.
'I have nothing more to lose. My three sons were killed. I am not going to sit silent.'
On the road rage incident in Gaya, Kumar said, "... when I saw in the media the (journalist's) family's demand for a CBI probe, I personally asked the DGP (director general of police) to send a police team to acquaint the family with probe (being conducted by the state police).
The furore over the release of the RJD strongman from Siwan has now reached the apex court through various petitions.
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.
The much-hyped liquor ban in the state has been widely seen as a failed attempt five years after its introduction.
Lalu landed in a soup after a news channel expose about a purported conversation with murder convict Mohammad Shahabuddin.
Bihar Health Minister Tej Pratap defiantly said that he doesn't recognise each person he clicks a photograph with.
Ramadhar Singh, the jailor of Siwan jail where Shahabuddin is currently lodged, has filed an FIR against Shahabuddin for abusing, misbehaving and threatening him.
The RJD leader was arrested just before he left for Siwan. There is a ban on his entry there.
The government is mulling moving the Supreme Court for cancellation of his bail even as opposition National Democratic Alliance on Wednesday demanded his arrest in the journalist Rajdeo Ranjan murder case.
A special court in Siwan, Bihar awarded life imprisonment to jailed former Rashtriya Janata Dal Member of Parliament Mohammad Shahabuddin and three others on Friday, finding them guilty of abduction and murder of two brothers 11 years ago.
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