The SIT of Dhanbad probing Justice Uttam Anand’s death case on Saturday recreated the crime scene at the accident site on NH-32, where the judicial officer was hit by an autorickshaw while out for his morning walk on Wednesday.

The SIT team led by Manoj Swargiyar, Additional Superintendent of Police, carried out a detailed technical and scientific analysis of the site, during which they analysed the road slant and road inclination with the help of Road Construction Department officials.

The police team of around 30 officials reached the site at around 10am under the leadership of Swargiyar. They remained at the site for more than four hours till around 2 pm.

The police, however, avoided any media interaction.

Notably, auto driver, Lakhan Verma and his accomplice during the police interrogation kept insisting that the accident took place as they were in an inebriated condition and they lost control of the vehicle near the road side hitting the judge.

Earlier, Sanjay Anand Laktkar, ADJ (Operations), during a prolonged meeting with the senior officers of Dhanbad police on Saturday, including the members of the district level SIT team, also instructed them to enquire about details of a bike rider who was following the autorickshaw from behind as visible in the CCTV footage.

The bike rider didn't take any notice of the incident and moved ahead after the accident.

The apathetic gesture of the bike rider has raised suspicion if he was guarding the auto rickshaw.

Laktar, based on minute scanning of the CCTV footage, instructed the district level SIT officials to find out the details of another motorcycle rider who tried to stop the autorickshaw a few yards away from the site after the incident.

The team has been instructed to find out whether the motorcycle rider who tried to stop the auto rickshaw after the incident had any word with the auto driver Lakhan Verma and his accomplice Rahul Verma.

Latkar refused to divulge any details of the Friday meeting to the media and said, "Our priority at the moment is to investigate the incident from all angles."