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According to sources, the Jharkhand High Court on Friday rejected the mobile snatching theory produced by Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) saying that the Dhanbad hit and run case is a well-planned murder of Judge Uttam Anand.

CCTV footage showed that the additional district judge was jogging on one side of a fairly wide road near the district court at Randhir Verma Chowk early on July 28 when a heavy auto-rickshaw veered towards him, hit him from behind, and fled the scene. Some locals found him lying in a pool of blood and took him to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Dhanbad police seized the vehicle from Giridih district and arrested the auto-rickshaw driver Lakhan Verma and his assistant Rahul Verma.

However, CBI has been unable to make any real progress in the matter. In the previous date of hearing the Court noted in its order that 'no progress has been made.'

On Friday, the Bench wrapped the CBI, disappointed with CBI’s failure to reach out to any conclusion. The Court rejected the phone-snatching theory out-rightly saying that since the CBI could not find out the main culprit and hence, it is coming with such theories to close the case, which will ultimately lead the case towards ‘mystery of unexplained’. 

The division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Naryan Prasad directed the investigating agency to submit a sealed report on the first and second Brain-mapping and Narco-tests conducted on the two accused persons by the next hearing on January 21, following, which a decision will be taken in this regard. 

Court of its own motion Versus The State of Jharkhand through the Chief Secretary & Others

W.P.(PIL) No.2696 of 2021