The Supreme Court Friday took suo motu cognisance of an additional district judge’s death in a “gruesome incident” on July 28 in Dhanbad, and sought a status report within a week from Jharkhand’s chief secretary and the director general of police on the probe.

A bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana made it clear that the proceedings before the Jharkhand High Court to monitor the probe into Judge Uttam Anand’s death would continue.