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  • Dhanbad judge death case: CBI remand of accused extended

    By PTI

    DHANBAD: A court on Wednesday extended for 10 more days the CBI remand of the two persons who are accused in the death case of Dhanbad district and sessions judge Uttam Anand.

    The Central Bureau of Investigation produced the two before the court of CBI special magistrate Shikha Agrawal seeking an extension of their remand for 10 more days for completing the investigation.

    The prayer was granted.

    The CBI had earlier taken autorickshaw driver Lakhan Verma and his accomplice Rahul Verma in its remand for five days on August 7.

    Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on July 31 decided to hand over to the CBI the probe into the hit-and-run case of the 49-year-old Anand.

    CCTV footage had shown that the judge was jogging on one side of a fairly wide road at Randhir Verma Chowk early on July 28 when a heavy auto-rickshaw veered towards him, hit him from behind and fled the scene.

    Locals took him to a nearby hospital, where the doctors declared him dead on arrival.

    Dhanbad district police had on the same day arrested the two and seized the auto-rickshaw.

    On Tuesday CBI had carried out forensic psychology tests on the two persons arrested so far and charged under IPC section 302 (murder).

    The CBI has recreated the accident scene twice, while experts of the Central Forensic Scientific Laboratory (CFSL) have also collected evidence from the spot.

  • Dhanbad hit and run case: SIT raids 53 hotels, 243 suspects taken into custody

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: Following the high profile Dhanbad hit and run case that left the Additional District and Session Judge Uttam Anand dead on Thursday, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) raided as many as 53 hotels at different locations and took 243 suspects into custody for interrogation.

    According to Dhanbad SSP Sanjiv Kuma said 243 suspected persons 17 were arrested in the case. In addition, more than 250 auto-rickshaws have been seized after their owners could not produce their documents to the police.

    Meanwhile, Office in Charge (OC) of Pathardih Police Station Umesh Manjhi and Sub-Inspector Adarsh Kumar were suspended for being negligent in discharging their duties.

    “Umesh Manjhi was suspended for not taking any action immediately after the complaint related to auto theft was brought to his notice while Adarsh Kumar was suspended for making the CCTV footage, related to the case, viral on social media,” said SSP Sanjiv Kumar.

    The police are also interrogating some of the criminals who are lodged in Dhabad jail, he added.

    Meanwhile, the SIT under ADG (Operations) Sanjay Anand Latkar, which is camping in Dhanbad for the last three days, also visited the post of occurrence and tried to re-create the scene to get some clues how the crime was executed. Latkar on Sunday also kept on taking updates from all the 25 teams who had beengiven different tasks on Saturday.

    The SIT includes 6 IPS officers, 6 DSPs and 25 officers in charge of different police stations. Notably, a CCTV footage showing an auto-rickshaw intentionally hitting Additional District and Session Judge of Dhanbad, from behind on a deserted road has raised doubts over his death while he was on his morning walk schedule. The incident took place near Golf Ground less than 500 meter from his house at Judge Colony of Hirapur, when he was out for his daily morning walk during which an unidentified four-wheeler hit him.

    Earlier on Thursday, the Jharkhand High Court took suo-motto cognizance on the matter calling it a direct attack on judiciary. The shocking incident was also brought to the notice of the court on Thursday morning by Supreme Court Bar Association President Vikas Singh, who demanded a CBI inquiry into the matter.

    On Friday, the Supreme Court also took suo-moto cognizance seeking detailed reports from the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police.

  • Dhanbad Judge death case: Pathardih Police Station in-charge suspended for negligence

    Express News Service
    RANCHI: The officer-in-charge of Pathardih Police Station Umesh Manjhi was suspended on Sunday in the Dhanbad hit-and-run case that left additional district and sessions judge Uttam Anand dead last week during his morning walk. 

    SSP Sanjeev Kumar suspended Manjhi for being negligent in discharging his duty and for not taking any action immediately after the auto theft complaint was brought to his notice in the early hours of Friday.

    The two accused persons arrested in the case also belong to the area that falls under Pathardih Police Station limits and the auto-rickshaw used for hitting the judge was also recovered from there.

    The FIR related to auto-theft was registered by its owner Sugni Devi, whose husband Ramdev Lohra has also been arrested by the Special Investigation team formed to probe the case. Lohra is a known history-sheeter against whom several cases are registered at different police stations of Dhanbad. He has been arrested several times.

    The CCTV footage showing the auto rickshaw intentionally hitting Uttam Anad has raised doubts. The incident took place near Golf Grounds, less than 500 metres from his house, a Judge Colony in Hirapur when Anand was out for his morning walk.

    The Jharkhand High Court has taken suo-motu cognizance of the matter calling it a direct attack on judiciary. The shocking incident was also brought to the notice of the court on Thursday morning by Supreme Court BarAssociation President Vikas Singh, who demanded a CBI inquiry.

    Later on Friday, the Supreme Court also took suo-motu cognizance seeking detailed report from the Chief Secretary and Director General of Police.