The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday named former Rashtriya Janaata Dal legislator Mohammad Shahabuddin as an accused in the murder of a Bihar journalist. Shahabuddin is currently involved in several pending cases, and is in Tihar Jail now in connection with a separate murder.

Bihar journalist Rajdev Ranjan was shot dead last year. The local police have said that Ranjan’s killing was pre-meditated. He was the bureau chief of a Hindi newspaper in Siwan. Ranjan’s wife Asha had said several times that Shahabuddin was involved in the shooting.