Dhanbad judge killed in broad daylight | Jharkhand police yet to arrest key conspirator | The Probe

Dhanbad judge killed in broad daylight | Jharkhand police yet to arrest key conspirator | The Probe

Chilling video of cold-blooded murder of Dhanbad judge: Jharkhand police yet to arrest key conspirator

The murder of Additional Sessions District Judge Uttam Anand is only one of many in Dhanbad - the coal capital of India

A chilling footage that shows an autorickshaw ramming into a judge - while he was on an early morning jog - is doing the rounds in social media. The incident was reported on Wednesday at about 5.08 am in Dhanbad in Jharkhand.

In the video - after hitting the judge - the rickshaw driver is seen fleeing the spot. Soon after the incident, the victim Uttam Anand, an Additional Sessions District Judge was taken to a nearby hospital by a passer-by but he succumbed to his injuries.

Just moments before the rickshaw rams into the judge, a man is seen riding a bike on the opposite side of the road and taking a look at the judge. Five seconds later, the rickshaw driver is seen deliberately ramming his vehicle onto the judge. Immediately after that, the bike rider is once again seen on the other side of the road. The biker is yet again captured on CCTV taking another close look at the injured judge. After the murder, both the bike rider and the rickshaw driver are seen speeding away. The sequence of events in the CCTV footage show that the judge’s murder was carefully orchestrated.

The Dhanbad police has registered a murder case in the matter and they have constituted an SIT to probe the case. The Jharkhand High Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the case and have told the State police that the case will be handed over to the CBI if the police fails to uncover the truth.

Though the auto driver has been arrested and the rickshaw used to murder the judge seized by the police, the incident brings to light a lax Jharkhand police department. Just a day before the murder, the very same autorickshaw used to murder the judge was stolen from the Pathardih police station in Dhanbad. The criminals are believed to have erased the original number of the auto from its number plate to cover their tracks. While 2 persons have been arrested in the case, the Jharkhand police is yet to arrest the key conspirator in the matter.

This is not the first time, Dhanbad in Jharkhand has witnessed such a brutal murder. The coal capital of India has seen numerous gang wars in the past. The Jharkhand police has however remained a mute spectator to the mafia related violence in Dhanbad. For instance in January 2017, Neeraj Singh, the former Deputy Mayor of Dhanbad was shot 67 times by motorcycle borne assailants and murdered.

Two months later in March 2017, Neeraj Singh’s arch rival and BJP’s former Jharia MLA Sanjeev Singh’s driver Ranjay Singh was shot dead. In April 2017, Sanjeev Singh surrendered before the police in connection with Neeraj Singh’s murder and recently Ranjay Singh’s murder case came up for hearing before Judge Uttam Anand’s court in Dhanbad.

During one of the hearings, Judge Uttam Anand had rejected the bail application of Aman Singh, an accused in the Ranjay Singh murder case. Investigators are now trying to ascertain if Judge Uttam Anand’s murder is linked to the chain of murders that took place in Dhanbad in the recent past.

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