A Dhanbad courtroom on Wednesday framed costs in opposition to two individuals made accused within the alleged homicide of Additional Sessions Judge Uttam Anand in July final yr. Additional District Judge Rajni Kant Pathak framed costs in opposition to Lakhan Verma and Rahul Verma below IPC Sections 302 (homicide), 201 (inflicting disappearance of proof of offense, or giving false info to display offender), 34(frequent intention).
ASJ Anand was out on a morning stroll on July 28, 2021, when an autorickshaw knocked him down on an empty street — the incident was captured on CCTV. He succumbed to accidents that morning. Dhanbad police arrested two folks, each native residents. Police later handed over the probe to CBI, which re-registered a case.
The CBI, which filed a chargesheet in a Dhanbad courtroom on October 20 final yr, claimed that one of many accused, Rahul Kumar Verma, is a “professional thief, who keeps looking for vulnerable targets”; that he and his alleged confederate Lakhan Verma had been “looking for a chance to execute the plan”. The company didn’t spell out the “plan”, nor did it give any motive for the crime. In the cost sheet, CBI acknowledged that “deliberate” and “intentional” “ramming” brought about “severe bodily injuries” which have been “sufficient” within the “ordinary course of nature” to trigger the ASI’s loss of life.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
