Attorney General R Venkataramani, appearing for the Centre, objected to the mixing up of the appointment of Goel with the larger issue of the appointment of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) and Election Commissioners (ECs) already being heard by the court.

New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI): The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the Delhi Special Police Establishment (Amendment) Bill, 2021 to extend the tenure of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Director up to a maximum of five years from the present two years.

Ranchi Oct 22 PTI The Jharkhand High Court on Friday rapped the Central Bureau of Investigation for filing a stereotype charge sheet in the Dhanbad judge murder caseThe high court while summoning the CBI Director to appear in the case also remarked that the agency seems to have worked like babus clerks while completing the probe and filing the charge-sheetA division bench of Chief Justice Dr Ravi Ranjan and Justice Sujit Narayan Prasad while hearing the petition monitoring the investigation of Dhanbad Additional District Judge Uttam Anands death referred to CBIs investigation as akin to babu-dom as the charge sheet filed could not substantiate the charges made against the accusedThe bench ordered the CBI director to appear in the virtual mode in the caseThe judges said that the charge sheet has been filed in a routine manner and seems to have been filed merely to complete a formalityThe charge sheet was filed under Section 302 IPC which is used on charges of murderHowever nothing has been substantiated in the charge sheet to pin the offence on the accused the bench saidThe CBI had earlier on repeated occasions assured the court that investigation is proceeding in full swing and had even said that the connection of the two accused with several persons is being explored to link it with Anands murderThe charge sheet however was vague and unclear the judges observedEarlier while hearing the petition the high court had questioned the Forensic State Laboratory and the state government about the vacancies in the laboratoryDue to absence of lab technicians samples collected from the scene of crime in Dhanbad were sent out of the state for examinationThe high court which pulled up the state government for acting in a Kumbhakaran mythical Lankan pribce who slept for half the year manner directed Jhrakhand state to ensure that all appointments in the forensic laboratory be completed within three monthsThe government had earlier assured the high court that it will fill up the vacancies within six monthsThe murder of Uttam Anand has also been caught on camera and the CCTV footage has gone viral showing him walking near the Randhir Verma Chowk a posh area in Dhanbad on July 28 morning The judge was hit by an auto rickshaw with a passenger sitting in the front along with the driver PTI CORR NAM JRC JRC