RAJ KUMAR
Ranchi, Dec.4: Ranchi Police are waiting for a bailer to bail out the medical store employee whose bike passed brushing against the car of Justice S N Pathak of Jharkhand High Court on Friday at Sahajanand Chowk. Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan, who had ordered a CBI probe into the matter of death of a Dhanbad district court judge by an auto-rickshaw knock, took serious note of it.
Officer-in-charge of Argora police station, Vinod Kumar, informed regarding the situation explaining the laws under which the poor medical store employee, Chotan Sao, is booked for the offence.
“Sao has been booked under section 279 (rash driving), 336 (act so rashly or negligently done as to endanger human life or the personal safety of others) and 427 (committing mischief and thereby causing loss or damage) of IPC. All the sections are bailable but so far no one turned up to the police station seeking bail of Sao. We also have sent information to his family members. In case no one turns up to the police station seeking bail we will have to produce him before the court for further legal action in the matter,” the officer-in-charge said explaining the law and the situation.
The case arose on Friday as Justice S.N.Pathak met Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan complaining about a breach in his security saying that a motorbike knocked his vehicle at Sahajanand Chowk under Argora police station in the city heart.
As the judge gave the information to the chief justice, he took serious note of it taking it as a matter of breach in the security of judicial officers. Accordingly, the matter was brought to the notice of senior superintendent of police S.K.Jha with the direction to take action into the matter.
As SSP Jha realised the consequences of this incident, he swung into action to identify the motorbike. After long efforts, the bike was identified with the help of CCTV and its driver, Chotan Sao, was brought to Argora police station for questioning.
Sao, a permanent resident of Tandwa in Hazaribagh settled in Harmu to work in a medical store, admitted to his mistake before police saying it happened as he was in a hurry to reach the medical store at Patel Chowk where he works.
Sao also sought an apology for the mistake saying it was not intentional as it happened when he started towards Kadru with a green signal on the roundabout where the judge also stopped following the red signal. He promised not to repeat such a mistake again. However, being the matter related to a high court judge, police registered an FIR in the matter.
