Dhanbad choose demise case: Pathardih police station officer suspended for not registering FIR on time

The Officer-in-charge of Jharkhand’s Pathardih Police Station, Umesh Manjhi, has been suspended for not registering an FIR on time in reference to the demise of Dhanbad Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Uttam Anand who handed away following an alleged hit-and-run incident on Wednesday.
Dhanbad SSP Sanjeev Kumar has confirmed Manjhi’s suspension, ANI reported.
Anand had gone for a morning stroll at Randhir Verma Chowk on Wednesday when an auto-rickshaw got here from behind, swerved sharply to the left and drove him away after hitting him. A passerby took Anand to a hospital however he succumbed to his accidents later.
The Jharkhand authorities had fashioned a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the incident after police opened a homicide investigation and arrested two individuals in reference to the incident.
Police sources mentioned the 2 arrested males claimed they have been “drunk” on the time of the incident.

On Saturday, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren advisable a CBI investigation into the incident. He additionally took to Twitter to announce his resolution to advocate a CBI probe into the incident.
A day earlier, the Supreme Court, taking suo motu cognisance of Anand’s demise on July 28, had mentioned that the “gruesome incident” had “larger ramifications”, and the court docket would handle bigger questions of safety for judges throughout the nation.