Hearing the matter on-line, a division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad made an oral remark that the homicide was not as a result of theft of cell phone or some other trivial matter.
The court docket stated that there’s a greater conspiracy and it needs to be uncovered.
The bench additionally ordered the CBI to provide the narco check report of the 2 accused arrested within the case. The matter might be heard once more on January 21.
The High Court had pulled up the CBI within the case on a number of events. In October, she had slammed the company for submitting a “stereotyped” chargesheet within the case, saying it couldn’t show the fees leveled in opposition to the accused.
The CCTV footage confirmed that the Additional District Judge was strolling on one facet of a really extensive street close to the district court docket at Randhir Verma Chowk within the early hours of July 28 when a heavy auto rickshaw got here in the direction of him, hit him from behind and hit him on the spot. fled away. Some locals discovered him coated in blood and took him to the hospital, the place medical doctors declared him introduced lifeless.
Dhanbad Police has seized the automobile from Giridih district and arrested auto rickshaw driver Lakhan Verma and his assistant Rahul Verma.
The CBI has been probing the case since August 4 and used numerous scientific checks on the accused to resolve the thriller. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police was earlier probing the case.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
