The Jharkhand High Court directed the CBI to make sure the right security to the 2 accused withinside the loss of life case of Dhanbad Judge Uttam Anand and if required use air journey for their motion as they had been critical for the investigation. During the hearing of the case on Friday, the CBI informed the courtroom that they're accomplishing a narco test on the 2 accused, Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma, who had been arrested in reference to the case.
Autorickshaw driver Lakhan and his partner Rahul had been taken to the national capital through Howrah New Delhi Rajdhani Express for the narco check. The CBI additionally submitted its weekly file earlier than the department bench of Chief Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad.
CCTV pictures had proven that the judge was jogging on one facet of a reasonably extensive street at Randhir Verma Chowk early on July 28 while a heavy auto-rickshaw veered toward him, hit him from in the back of and fled the scene. Locals took him to a close-by hospital, in which the medical doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Meanwhile, the state home secretary, who was present throughout the hearing, submitted earlier than the courtroom that steps had been being taken to reinforce the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) here to ensure all sorts of assessments are done in Jharkhand itself.
On August 22, the CBI had announced a Rs 5 lakh reward for “worthwhile information” associated with the loss of life of the judge. Chief Minister Hemant Soren on July 31 determined to hand over to the CBI the probe into the hit-and-run case of 49-year-old Anand.