New Delhi: The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to withdraw all cases against late liquor baron Ponty Chadha in the state. The decision was taken in a Cabinet meeting in Uttar Pradesh. Ponty Chadha, who was the sole liquor distributor in Uttar Pradesh, died after a shootout between him and his brother Hardeep at his farmhouse in Delhi. Hardeep was also killed in the shootout. Ponty Chadha's other business interests...
01:53 PM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police have arrested four people for trespassing at the farmhouse in Chhatarpur, where the shootout between liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother took place on Saturday. The police say the arrested include private security guards of late Ponty Chadha. However, no arrests have been made in regard to the double murders case. The police are yet to find significant leads into what led to the...
11:07 AM, Nov 20, 2012
Lucknow: Barely two days after his gruesome death in a shootout in Delhi, billionaire Ponty Chadha's liquor and other businesses in Uttar Pradesh could be the first casualty of the incident, government officials said on Monday. While admitting that it was a bit "early" to speculate about such an eventuality, officials said that Ponty's death could mean bad news for his Wave Group. "Other than the money that he so...
02:56 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Monday finally managed to piece together the sequence of events leading to the deaths of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep in a bloody shootout in their luxurious farmhouse in south Delhi on Saturday. A team of forensic and ballistic experts went in the morning to the sprawling 12 acre Rs 200 crore farmhouse in Chhattarpur area -- which is dotted with...
12:58 AM, Nov 20, 2012
The end of Ponty Chadha was as dramatic as his rise. From films to real estate to sugar mills, Ponty's empire was spread far and wide. ...
11:48 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest development in connection with the deaths of liquor and property baron Ponty Chadha and brother Hardeep Chadha, the police have said that a clash between the two brothers had taken place in another farmhouse, located a few kilometers away, on the morning of the shootout. According to the police, Ponty's men had tried to remove Hardeep's supporters from their farmhouse in Kapashera in southwest Delhi,...
08:59 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: A self-confessed mediator in the alleged property dispute between liquor and real estate baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep said on Monday that the shootout in which the two killed each other was not actually over the Chhattarpur farmhouse. Delhi SGPC chief Paramjeet Singh, a close relative of Hardeep, said that the brothers had resolved their differences and that the killings had been "sudden, not planned". Ponty...
01:37 PM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: Sources said on Monday that liquor-to-real estate boss Ponty Chaddha and his brother Hardeep had agreed to split their empire, but the deal broke down leading to the dramatic farmhouse shootout which killed the two. The two were cremated on Sunday, albeit after a delay as the police called for a second post-mortem. One person has been detained for the shootout. He has been identified as Sachin Tyagi,...
09:31 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: Sources said on Monday that liquor-to-real estate boss Ponty Chaddha and his brother Hardeep had agreed to split their empire, but the deal broke down leading to the dramatic farmhouse shootout which killed the two. The two were cremated on Sunday, albeit after a delay as the police called for a second post-mortem. One person has been detained for the shootout. He has been identified as Sachin Tyagi,...
09:31 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: It was a twist as dramatic as the killings of north India's top liquor and real estate baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep Chadha, with the Delhi Police stopping Ponty's cremation minutes before the rites could begin on Sunday evening, saying that a second autopsy was needed. The police officials claimed that the doctors at the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) had failed to...
07:23 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: The post mortems conducted on liquor and real estate baron Ponty Chadha and his estranged brother Hardeep Singh Chadha on Sunday revealed that the two received 20 bullets among them, a police officer said. Ponty's body underwent two autopsies, the second round exclusively for removing bullets left behind earlier. In the second autopsy on liquor and real estate baron Ponty Chadha four more bullets were extracted from his...
01:24 AM, Nov 19, 2012
New Delhi: In the latest twist in the murder of liquor baron Ponty Chadha, the police on Sunday sent his body for a second postmortem as three bullets are still inside his body. Sources say that the body of the liquor baron was handed over to the police by the doctor who performed the postmortem without informing that the bullets are still inside his body. The doctor, however, later informed...
07:42 PM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: Police on Sunday registered two FIRs in connection with the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his young brother Hardeep, who were locked in a dispute over ownership of a farmhouse in south Delhi. Police earlier in the day detained fifteen people for questioning in connection with the case. Investigators said they were looking into call records of Ponty, whose real name is Gurdeep, and his brother...
04:34 PM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: Fifteen people were picked up for questioning in connection with the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep, who were locked in a dispute over ownership of a farmhouse in south Delhi. Investigators said they were looking into call records of Ponty, whose real name is Gurdeep, and his brother to build the exact sequence of events that led to the incident in which...
12:21 PM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: Arrests are likely on Sunday morning in the liquor baron Ponty Chaddha and his brother Hardeeps double murder case. Their guards who were allegedly present on the scene were questioned all of Saturday. This includes the six Personal Security Officers attached to them by the Punjab Police and the Delhi Police believe Hardeep fired the first shot killing his brother Ponty and then died in retaliatory firing by...
06:29 AM, Nov 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a shocking development, liquor baron Ponty Chaddha was shot dead by his own brother Hardeep during an altercation over their business empire. The incident took place in their farmhouse in the Capital, a guard too was injured in the firing. It was Ponty's business that ended up taking his life. The king of a mammoth empire - liqour baron Ponty Chaddha shot dead by his own brother...
11:34 PM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: Controversial businessman Gurdeep Singh Chadha alias Ponty Chadha, who was killed along with his brother after they fired at each other inside a farmhouse in Delhi's Chhattarpur area on Saturday, was the sole liquor distributor in Uttar Pradesh. His other business interests included real estate, sugar mills and film production, which he used to look after along with his two brothers - Hardeep and Rajinder. The business empire...
04:41 PM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: A firing incident has been reported from liquor baron Ponty Chadha's farmhouse in Delhi's Chhattarpur area in which one person has been killed. The person killed is said to be Ponty Chadhas brother while the guard of the farmhouse has been injured. Ponty Chadha, who has several private bodyguards, was present inside the farmhouse when the firing incident took place. But there are no reports of whether he...
02:12 PM, Nov 17, 2012
New Delhi: Police on Sunday registered two FIRs in connection with the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his young brother Hardeep, who were locked in a dispute over ownership of a farmhouse in south Delhi. Police earlier in the day detained fifteen people for questioning in connection with the case. Investigators said they were looking into call records of Ponty, whose real name is Gurdeep, and his brother...
04:34 AM, Nov 16, 2012
Lucknow: The Akhilesh Yadav government is facing tough questions for awarding the contract of Anganwadi food supply to liquor baron Ponty Chadha. The Uttar Pradesh government's decision makes a mockery of the Supreme Court order that the food supply for small children and pregnant women should be given only to self-help groups, mahila mandals and village communities. Ponty Chadha's company Great Food Value has been distributing anganwadi food for the...
03:30 PM, Nov 15, 2012
