Scribe murder case: Proclamation notice pasted at Shahabuddin aide’s house

A proclamation and property attachment notice was on Monday pasted at the house of Laddan Mian, a close associate of jailed ex-RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin, in connection with the murder of a journalist in Siwan earlier this month.

A team from the town police station pasted the notice issued by a district court at Mian’s house in Ramnagar locality, Superintendent of Police Suarabh Kumar Sah said.

The permission to attach the property of Laddan Mian was granted by Chief Judicial Magistrate of Siwan, Arvind Kumar Singh on a police prayer. The notice gave two days time to Laddan Mian to surrender before the police failing which his house would be attached, he said.

Rajdeo Ranjan, bureau head of a leading vernacular newspaper, was on May 13 shot dead by unidentified men near a fruit market on the station road under town police station area of Siwan.