A CBI special court, at the north Bihar district headquarters town of Muzaffarpur, on Monday, issued a production warrant against former Siwan MP and senior RJD leader Md Shahabuddin, in a case pertaining to the murder of journalist Rajdeo Ranjan, at Siwan in north Bihar, in May last year.

Hearing a petition for production warrant, filed by a DSP rank investigating officer, the court of special CBI judge Anupam Kumari granted the prayer and asked CBI officials to produce the former MP through video conferencing, on May 26.

Shahabuddin is lodged at present in the high security Tihar jail in New Delhi, as per a Supreme Court direction, on appeal from Ranjan’s widow and other complainants