The special team of CBI led by Additional Superintendent of police Vipin Kumar Shukla, investigating the Dhanbad judge Uttam Anand murder case on Saturday recreated the crime scene at the site of the incident near Golf Ground and also carried out the 3-D laser scanning to verify details like distances, lines of slight besides the suspect’s height and speed of vehicle.

The CBI also took into custody the two arrested persons including the auto driver, Lakhan Verma and his accomplice, Rahul Verma at around 10am after visiting Dhanbad Divisional jail and commenced interrogation.

The court of sub divisional judicial magistrate of Dhanbad, Shikha Agarwal had on Friday granted the duo five days remand to CBI.

The CBI team, meanwhile, also continued questioning several persons as per the phone call details of the arrested duo ahead of the incident.

The members of the CBI team engaged in recreation of the crime scene accompanied by personnel of its scientific department, central forensic science laboratory (CFSL) carried out their operation at the site of the incident for around three hours from 11.30am to 2.15pm.

They also collected some samples including soil samples and some grass on which the blood stains of judge Uttam Anand had dropped after he fell down on the ground on being hit by the auto rickshaw on July 28.

The 3-D laser scanning helps to create highly accurate models of crime scenes as the non intrusive technique helps the investigators prevent contamination of the scene which in turn helps the investigators, lawyers and judges to walk through the scene at any time and verify details like distances and lines of sight etc.

3-D scans when stitched with photos or video stills taken at the site helps to add points of interest to investigators and better understand what specificities of crime scene they are looking for.

The stitching of the photos of video stills also helps to carry out the height analysis and speed analysis.

Though, none of CBI team members present at the site refused to formally interact with the media but during informal interaction they hinted that the 3 D laser scanning of the crime scene recreation was carried out on Saturday in order to present the facts in the court during the hearing of the case.

Notably, members of District level SIT under the leadership of Manoj Swargiyar the Additional Superintendent of Police of Dhanbad also recreated the crime scene on July 31 as part of the investigation.