PNS n Ranchi
The CBI has filed another charge sheet at the special CBI court in Dhanbad another case related to the alleged murder of the Dhanbad district court judge Uttam Anand. The fresh charge sheet is related to the theft of the auto-rikshaw
(JH 10R 0461) by the accused of the judge murder case, namely Rajan Verma and Lakhan Verma.
The accused persons are accused to have hit the judge with this stolen auto-rickshaw in the morning of July 28 near Randhir Verma Chowk when he was returning to his residence after a morning walk.
The CBI in the charge sheet submitted before the court of Abhishek Srivastava said that the accused had stolen the vehicle which they used to intensify and hit the judge which caused his death. The CBI also said that the accused persons, later on, changed the registration number of the stolen vehicle to suppress the evidence.
Notably, the CBI has already submitted a charge sheet of the main case of the murder. However, the Jharkhand High Court monitoring the investigation expressed dissatisfaction over the quality of investigation carried by the CBI and said that the charge sheet is completely silent on the murder motive and the entire investigation was carried in haste and without applying mind.
In the auto theft case its owner Sugani Devi, a native of Bhouri Khatal in Dhanbad had lodged an FIR at Pathardih police station of Dhanbad on July 29. The investigation revealed that the auto-rickshaw was stolen on the intervening night of July 17. But the FIR was lodged a day after the judge was hit. In this case, Dhanbad SSP Sanjeev Kumar had suspended the officer in charge of Pathardih police station Umesh Manjhi for the delay in lodging the FIR.