BackCourt sends Namdhari to 5 days in police custody
Police say Namdhari shot Hardeep
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New Delhi: Sacked Uttarakhand Minority Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari was on Saturday remanded in police custody for five days by a Delhi court, with the police accusing him to be the main conspirator in the Ponty Chadha shoot-out. They said and Namdhari fired at Hardeep Chadha.
Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg sent Namdhari to five days’ police custody saying “the investigating agencies should be given an opportunity for their endeavour to recover the weapon used in the crime".
“In view of the same, accused is remanded in police custody for five days till November 28," the judge said.
During the hearing, the police accused Namdhari of having shot at liquor baron Ponty Chadha’s brother Hardeep Chadha in the shoot-out at a Chhattarpur farmhouse in south Delhi last Saturday.
The police said Namdhari, in his disclosure statement, had admitted to firing at Hardeep with his pistol when the latter pointed his gun at him. They also accused Namdhari of being the main conspirator as he was involved in vandalizing the farmhouse, besides the loot, robbery and the attempt to murder there.
The police claimed he hadn’t disclosed the firing while filing the first information report (FIR) and had also hidden his gun.
“I don’t want to talk more on this case. I just want to say it was just an accident and the FIR was lodged by me in this case. I called police myself," Namdhari said while going out of the court premises after he was remanded in police custody.
The police told the court that they had to trace his accomplices who had accompanied but “vanished later". “Other associates also, who are hiding in Uttarakhand or Uttar Pradesh, are to be arrested," the prosecutor said.
It also told the court that one of the accused arrested earlier has disclosed Namdhari’s involvement in the shoot-out.
Namdhari, who was with liquor baron Ponty at the time of his killing, was produced in court on Saturday after his arrest on Friday from his residence at Bajpur, Udhamsinghnagar, of Uttarakhand.
Ponty and Hardeep, who had a ongoing property dispute, were killed when both sides opened fire at each other last Saturday at their family farmhouse.
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