It said the autorickshaw had closely followed Uttam Anand, which indicated that the driver and the person with him were looking for a chance to execute the plan. The CBI said the incident seemed to be “planned and intentional”, and that it “does not appear to be an accident”. Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) re-creates a scene during their investigation of Additional District Judge Uttam Anand’s alleged murder case at in Dhanbad (PTI) The defence has maintained that one of the accused, Lakhan Verma, who was driving the auto, was intoxicated when the vehicle hit the judge. Samples of the accused were returned because there was no blood- and urine-testing facility available, and the samples were subsequently sent to CFSL, Delhi.Ī few days later, during the hearing, the HC read through the progress report presented by the CBI which contained a CFSL report that indicated that the accused were “not under intoxication”. The HC pulled up the Jharkhand government for running a forensic science lab in Ranchi that was in a “primitive stage”. CCTV camera footage showed the autorickshaw veering towards him on an empty road, and the judge’s wife, Kriti Sinha, told police that “it appears the autorickshaw driver, in a pre-planned manner, hit him on his head which led to his death”. The report of the autopsy said death had occurred “due to injuries caused by hard and blunt substance” on the head. He was rushed to the Dhanbad Medical College and Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries around 9 am. The defence pleaded that it was not an “intentional hit” and that only the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder would be attracted.ĪSJ Anand, 50, was on a morning walk shortly after 5 am on July 28, 2021, when an autorickshaw knocked him down near Randheer Prasad Verma Chowk in Dhanbad. The prosecution said that the motive of the crime was to snatch the victim’s mobile phone, and that it was a premeditated act that warranted a conviction under IPC Section 302. The sessions court framed charges on February 2 this year, and after 35 hearings, completed the trial. The Jharkhand government had subsequently handed over the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had re-registered the case and filed the chargesheet in October last year.

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