The Jharkhand government on Saturday decided to hand over the probe into the death of Dhanbad Judge Uttam Anand to the Central Bureau of Investigation. In a hit-and-run case, the District and Sessions Judge-8 of Dhanbad court was allegedly mowed down by a heavy auto-rickshaw while on morning jog on July 28.
Police have already arrested two persons— Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma—in connection with the case and recovered the vehicle. Rahul Verma, a resident of Digwadih, Dhanbad has been arrested from Dhanbad Tempo stand while the other was arrested from Mangrudih police station area in Giridih.
On Friday, Chief Minister Hemant Soren had said that the government was serious on the probe. His statement came after the family members of Justice Anand called on him to demand a thorough investigation into the incident and a government job for the judge’s wife.
The lawyers across the state on Friday abstained from judicial work on the call of all 37 bar associations including 24 district bar associations, 12 sub divisional bar assocaitions and one Advocates Association at Jharkhand High Court to protest against judge's death and an advocate's murder in the state.
CCTV footages showed that Justice Anand was jogging on one side of a fairly wide road at Randhir Verma Chowk early on Wednesday 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.
