CBI changes probe team in judge death case after Jharkhand high court rap
Hindustan TimesNew Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation has changed the entire team investigating the death of Dhanbad judge Uttam Anand two weeks after the Jharkhand high court criticised its handling of the case. The Supreme Court and the Jharkhand high court took suo motu cognisance of the hit-and-run incident in which Anand was killed after CCTV footage showed a three-wheeler swerving on an empty road to deliberately knock him down as he was jogging outside Magistrate Colony near Randhir Verma Square in Dhanbad. The central investigation agency filed a charge sheet against the two in October last year for murder and destruction of evidence, but the high court was unhappy with the CBI probe. The court said that even after the passage of so many months since the incident on July 28 last year, the CBI’s inability to close the case raised questions on the agency’s credibility.