LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Ranchi, June 22: The Jharkhand High Court on Wednesday took suo-moto cognizance in the matter of murder in the civil court premises in Deoghar.
The development took place in the court of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan where a letter of the Principal District Sessions Judge of Deoghar informing about the incident was converted into public interest litigation.
Chief Justice Dr Ranjan has sought a reply from the state government in this matter. Along with this, the court has also ordered a security audit of Deoghar Civil Court while taking suo moto cognizance.
The chief justice observed that the security system in the state is weak saying murders are being committed every day. He observed that innocent are even killed by a hammer
The court will now hear the matter on July 8.
On June 18, in an incident of broad daylight shooting, bike-borne miscreants shot dead a Bihar criminal Amit Kumar Singh in the civil court campus in Deoghar when he was being taken for production in the court.
Miscreants used pistols to commit the crime. They came all of a sudden before Singh and indiscriminately opened fire before the police deputed for the security of Singh could react. Singh took bullets to his head and chest and died on the spot. Police recovered a pistol from the spot.
Earlier on June 9, the high court had taken suo moto cognizance in the murder of Manpreet Singh in Sidgora. A division bench of Chief Justice Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad has taken notice of this matter and has directed for a response from the state administration in the matter.
The court has sought information from the state government on whether or not a witness protection programme exists in the state. The court has a fixed date of June 27 for further hearing in the matter.
Manpreet Singh, a young man from Jamshedpur’s Sidhgora, was slain after he returned home from a court hearing. The killer broke open his door and shot him dead in front of his mother in Jamshedpur. According to her mother, she kept on calling the police for 30 minutes but no one turned up for his rescue.
