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New Delhi, September 15: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday registered a case under section 302, 120-B, 34 of IPC and section 27 of Arms Act against unknown assailants relating to the murder of senior journalist Rajdeo Ranjan.
In a press statement, the CBI said it registered the case “on the request of Bihar Government and further notification from Government of India.”
The CBI has taken over the investigation of the case which was earlier registered vide FIR no. 362/2016 dated 13.05.2016 at Siwn town Police station in Siwan, Bihar on a complaint from wife of the deceased.
Ranjan was shot dead in May in a busy market place near the Station Road in Siwan district of Bihar.
Ranjan was the Siwan bureau chief of Hindi newspaper Hindustan, a part of the Hindustan Times Media company.
The state government had constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) comprising two Deputy Superintendents of Police, three Inspectors and five Sub-Inspectors to trace the killers.
— With inputs from IANS
