The Crime Control Act (CCA) was on Wednesday invoked against expelled RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, a day ahead of the polling in this Bihar's parliamentary constituency from where his mother Shanti Priya is in the fray as an Independent candidate.

"We have applied section 3 of the CCA against Pappu Yadav in view of elections in the constituency tomorrow," Superintendent of Police Nyer Hasnain Khan said.