By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has modified the crew probing the loss of life of Dhanbad pass judgement on Uttam Anand, officers mentioned on Saturday.
The advance got here after the Jharkhand Prime Court docket not too long ago slammed the company for its “laxity” in probing the homicide, and seen that it appeared that the CBI used to be seeking to surrender the investigation or even give protection to the accused.
The officers mentioned the crew will now be headed by means of Superintendent of Police (SP) Vikas Kumar, posted at company’s Particular Crime Unit in Delhi.
He has already taken over from VK Shukla.
The brand new crew has already reached Dhanbad the place they sought the court docket’s permission to query two accused, Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma, who’ve been chargesheeted and are being held within the district jail, they mentioned.
The top court docket had ordered the CBI to provide stories of the narco check carried out at the arrested two accused.
There’s a better conspiracy and that are supposed to be unearthed, it had mentioned.
The CBI had filed its fee sheet in October final 12 months in opposition to auto-rickshaw motive force Lakhan Verma and his associate Rahul Verma below IPC sections associated with homicide (302) and destruction of proof (201) but even so not unusual purpose (34), the officers mentioned.
The central company had saved the probe open within the case, they mentioned.
The 49-year-old pass judgement on used to be allegedly mowed down by means of the autorickshaw whilst he used to be on morning jog on July 28, 2021 in Dhanbad.
CCTV digital camera pictures confirmed that Anand used to be jogging on one facet of a moderately broad highway at Randhir Verma Chowk in Dhanbad when the auto-rickshaw veered against him, hit him from at the back of and fled the scene, killing him.
The case used to be passed over to the CBI by means of the Jharkhand executive.
The company had taken over two extra FIRs — associated with robbery of cellphones and auto rickshaw used within the crime — from Jharkhand police so as to resolve alleged conspiracy within the homicide of the pass judgement on, they mentioned.