Ponty shootout case: HC seeks cops' reply on Namdhari's bail

March 07, 2016 16:02

Delhi High Court has sought Delhi Police's reply on the bail plea of sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, who along with 20 others is facing a murder trial in a 2012 shootout here that claimed the lives of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his younger brother Hardeep.

Justice P S Teji also asked the police to file their status report on Namdhari's plea which said he was "no more required by investigating agency and no purpose would be served while keeping him in jail with hardened criminals".

The trial court in July last year had framed charges under section 302 (murder) read with section 149 (offence committed by member of unlawful assembly) of the IPC against all the 21 accused including Namdhari and his Personal Security Officer (PSO) Sachin Tyagi. Namdhari, however, in his bail plea claimed he was innocent and the complainant of the case on whose statement an FIR was lodged has not supported the police theory that he was part of the conspiracy in which the two brothers died.

He said the FIR did not contain his name and neither did the complainant mention his role in the incident. The application also said he had never misused any of the condition imposed on him during an interim bail granted on earlier occasions. Currently, he is on interim bail which is to end on March 18.

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