Summary:
Ranchi, Dec 3 (PTI) The High Court of Jharkhand has directed three leading technical establishments to examine 4.5 kg of a silver-grey substance, suspected to be uranium, recovered by Bokaro police in June this year.
The directive came during the hearing of the bail application of an accused on Thursday.
Expressing serious concern over the manner in which the suspected uranium was earlier examined by a UCIL team without informing the judicial magistrate in whose court the case is pending, the high court asked the technical establishments to carry out the exercise.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research Kalpakkam, Tamil Nadu and Raja Ramana Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore have been asked to inspect the sample.
Hearing the bail application of Krishna Kant Rana, the court of Justice SK Dwivedi observed that in course of the investigation, the sample was earlier examined by an expert committee of the Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL) in Jadugora.
The court said in its order that the material will be collected in the presence of the chief judicial magistrate of Bokaro and the judicial magistrate where the case is pending.