A six-member team of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the alleged murder of Judge Uttam Anand visited the site near Randhir Verma Chowk and carried out an inspection for more than 15 minutes. Notably, Additional District Judge of Dhanbad Anand was allegedly killed on July 28 last year at around 5.08 am when he was on a morning stroll near his house.

The team which reached the site at around 1.20 pm first examined the spot and then matched the road with a map. The team then went towards the SSLNT Women’s College through the Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited substation road, spent some time near the chowk connecting Luby Circular road and Hirapur Hatia Chowk near SSLNT College for some time and then returned a few yards towards Hatia chowk but again returned back towards SSLNT College chowk on Luby Circular road and from their returned back from the site to their camp office at CIMFR.

The members, who were in plain clothes, however maintained distance from the media. Notably, this is the fourth site inspection by the CBI team as soon after arriving in Dhanbad. The team carried out an inspection on August 5 which was followed by another on August 7 during which the team did a recration of the crime accoimpanied by a
3-D laser screening.

A three-member CBI team again did the site inspection for ten minutes on October 8 during which they also questioned some shop keepers near the site. A High Court bench led by Chief Justice Ravi Ranjan and Justice SN Prasad during periodic hearing of the case on January 21 expressed strong displeasure over the CBI plea that the murder has been committed by the two arrested persons including uuto Driver Lakhan Verma and his accomplice Rahul Verma for mobile theft.

The court during the hearing claimed that the CBI failed to trace the root cause of the murder. The court added that the duo accepted during the Narco test that if they knew judge Anand before how could it be asessed that the murder was carried out for mobile theft. The court also questioned if the murder was carried out for mobile theft then why they didn’t steal the mobile. The CBI counsel however claimed they could not steal the mobile as motorcycles were passing through from both sides of the road. The next date of hearing of the case in high court is scheduled on January 28.

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