November 17, 2017 8:46 PM

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Scribe murder: SC seeks CBI's response on Tej Pratap Yadav pics

The Supreme Court today sought the CBI's response on its probe relating to news reports showing photographs and videos of former Bihar minister and RJD Chief Lalu Prasad's son Tej Pratap Yadav, along with the then absconding accused of killing scribe Rajdev Ranjan.'<br/><br/>The accused Mohd Kaif and Mohd Javed are presently in judicial custody.<br/><br/>Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the CBI, told the court that the agency has already filed a charge sheet in the scribe murder case on 22nd August before a special CBI court.<br/><br/>The apex court directed the CBI to file a status report within four weeks about the investigation conducted into the<br/>allegations of harbouring and sheltering the then absconding<br/>accused in the murder case. <br/><br/>It also sought agency's response to the news reports that purportedly showed the accused in the company of Yadav and Mohd Shahabuddin, jailed RJD strongman and a co-accused in the sensational murder case.<br/><br/>The apex court had earlier issued notices to Shahabuddin, Yadav and the Bihar government on the plea of Ranjan's wife seeking transfer of the case from Siwan in Bihar to Delhi.

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