The judicial custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief SS Namdhari and nine others including his PSO Sachin Tyagi, arrested for their alleged roles in the Ponty Chadha shootout case, was today extended till January 10 by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg has extended the judicial custody of Namdhari by 14 days, his Personal Security Officer (PSO) Tyagi, his aides Simranjeet Singh and Jagbir Singh and six others...
06:08 PM, Dec 27, 2012
New Delhi: Sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief SS Namdhari and his PSO Sachin Tyagi, arrested for their alleged roles in the Ponty Chadha shootout case, were on Friday remanded in judicial custody for six days by a Delhi court. Metropolitan Magistrate Rajinder Singh sent Namdhari and his Personal Security Officer Tyagi to jail till December 13, after the police said it does not need their further custody for interrogation. "Accused...
06:28 PM, Dec 07, 2012
New Delhi: The police custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, booked on charges of murder in slain liquor baron Ponty Chadha shootout case, was extended today by a Delhi court till December 7. Metropolitan Magistrate Rajinder Singh extended Namdhari's police custody by two more days saying he is required to be interrogated for recovery of the alleged weapon and vehicle used in the crime. "In the...
06:32 PM, Dec 05, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi police on Tuesday claimed before a court here that sacked Uttarakhand minority commission chairman SS Namdhari's PSO Sachin Tyagi allegedly conspired with him and Ponty Chadha to kill the liquor baron's brother Hardeep. "He (Tyagi) himself disclosed that he was actively involved in the conspiracy of trespass and he along with Namdhari fired shots at Hardeep in furtherance of conspiracy made earlier with Namdhari and Ponty Chadha,"...
10:14 PM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: The personal security officer of sacked Uttrakhand Minorities Commission Chairperson Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, Sachin Tyagi, will be produced in court on Tuesday in connection with the Ponty-Hardeep murder case. Tyagi had been charged with criminal conspiracy and was arrested on Monday on charges of allegedly murdering Hardeep Chadha, liquor baron Ponty Chadha's brother. Namdhari, an aide of Ponty, was arrested on charges of murder while seven others were...
09:06 AM, Dec 04, 2012
New Delhi: In a new twist to the Ponty-Hardeep murders, the police on Sunday claimed in court that Hardeep had felt slighted after his brother Ponty and his aide and key accused in the double murder case, SS Namdhari purchased several properties in Nainital and Bazpur. The police also told court that Namdhari intentionally killed Hardeep after which he handed over the weapon to his PSO, who told another accused...
05:50 PM, Dec 02, 2012
Dehradun: Sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, arrested recently in connection with Ponty Chadha murder case, was on Monday expelled from the BJP. Namdhari has been expelled from the party following his arrest in connection with the Chattarpur farmhouse shootout in which controversial liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep were killed, state BJP chief Bishan Singh Chufal said. Even otherwise, Namdhari was not an active member...
02:45 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: The personal security officer of sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, who was initially detained in connection with the double murder case of Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep, was released on Saturday night. Namdhari had reportedly told the police that his PSO Sachin Tyagi had shot at Hardeep in self defence. There were allegations that it was Tyagi's firing that killed Hardeep. Though Tyagi has...
02:56 PM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: The pistol that sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari used to shoot at real estate annd liquor baron Ponty Chadha's brother Hardeep on November 17 has been recovered. The Delhi Police Crime Branch team recovered the pistol from Namdhari's farmhouse in Bazpur in Udhamsinghnagar district in Uttarakhand. Delhi Police had recovered two licensed pistols from the scene of the shootout last week. Police said they also...
10:59 AM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday took SS Namdhari, an accused in the Ponty-Hardeep double murder case, to his residence in Bazpur, Uttarakhand to search for the weapon with which he admitted to having fired at Hardeep. Namdhari, the former chief of Uttarakhand Minority Commission, was a close aide of Ponty. On Saturday, Namdhari was arrested on charges of trespassing on Ponty's property after the shootout. He...
10:19 AM, Nov 25, 2012
New Delhi: Former Uttarakhand Minority Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari was produced in court on Saturday by the police after being arrested for his involvement in the shootout which killed liquor and real estate baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep. The police told the court that Namdhari had confessed to having opened fire at Hardeep - a claim which now alters the police's version so far. The police had...
09:12 PM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: Sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, who was arrested on the charges of trespassing on Friday in connection with the double murder case of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep on Friday, has reportedly admitted before Delhi Police that he too was carrying a gun when the shootout happened at the family farmhouse of the Chadha brothers. The police are now trying to find...
01:05 PM, Nov 24, 2012
New Delhi: Sukhdev Singh Namdhari a close aide of liquor baron Ponty Chadha's for over two decades, was arrested on Friday for allegedly helping Ponty to take control of this disputed family property. Before he was held, Namdhari spoke to the media at his farmhouse in Uttarakhand. He said, "I wasn't absconding and I'm not involved in grabbing the Mehrauli farmhouse." Namdhari who before the fatal shootout was the head...
10:06 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari was taken into custody by Delhi Police on Friday. He is now being brought to Delhi, where he'll be further questioned in connection with the double murder case of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep. A Delhi police team picked up Namdhari from his farmhouse at Bazpur in Udhamsinghnagar district in Uttarakhand and took him to the national...
03:39 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: Delhi Police on Friday tracked down sacked chairman of Uttarakhand Minorities Commission Sukhdev Singh Namdhari and started questioning him in connection with the double murder case of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep. Namdhari is being questioned at his farmhouse in Bazpur in Uttarakhand. Police claim Namdhari reached his farmhouse a short while ago. The police were on a lookout for Namdhari as he was present...
02:17 PM, Nov 23, 2012
