The judicial custody of sacked Uttarakhand minority panel chief S S Namdhari and nine others, arrested for their alleged role in the murder of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother, was extended today till January 24 by a Delhi court.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mukesh Kumar remanded Namdhari, his PSO Sachin Tyagi and eight others in 14 days judicial custody, after they appeared before the court in person on expiry of their one day remand.
Yesterday, their judicial custody was extended for a day only as the investigating officer (IO) could not reach the court in time.
The court allowed the IO plea to produce all the ten accused on the next day of hearing on January 24 thorough video conferencing, but has directed the agency to produce them in person on February 7.
The court extended the judicial custody of accused Bhupender Singh, Uday Raj Singh, Rajpal Singh, Anand Singh Bisht, Mathura Singh Mehra and Satnam Singh, who are Ponty's aides.
It also extended the judicial custody for Namdhari's men Simranjeet Singh and Jagbir Singh.
The Crime Branch of Delhi Police had booked Namdhari for allegedly killing Ponty Chadha's younger brother Hardeep.
Tyagi, a constable with Uttarakhand Police since 2005 and deployed as Namdhari's PSO since January 2012, was also arrested for his alleged role in the crime.
Ponty and Hardeep, who had an ongoing property dispute, were killed in a shootout at their Chattarpur farmhouse here on November 17 afternoon, after which the police arrested ten persons including Tyagi and Namdhari in various criminal cases linked to the incident.
