Metropolitan Magistrate Sheetal Choudhary dismissed the plea of Delhi Police seeking extension of police custody of Nitesh and advocate Baljeet Singh Sehrawat by four days, and sent the duo to judicial custody till May 2.
Nitesh and Sehrawat were produced before the court after their three-day police custody ended today. Police sought extension of their custodial interrogation, saying that their probe into the case is going on and they need to further interrogate the duo regarding the case.
Both Nitesh (31) and Sehrawat (51) were arrested on April 9, two weeks after Bhardwaj was shot dead in a south Delhi farmhouse, which is named after Nitesh. Police has alleged that Nitesh had given a Rs five crore contract to Sehrawat who in turn had entrusted the job to absconding godman Swami Pratibhanand.
The other accused in the case are alleged shooters Purushottam Rana and Sunil Mann and Amit, the driver of the Skoda car in which the shooters had reached the farm house of 62-year-old-Bhardwaj to kill him on March 26.
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After the arrest of Nitesh and Sehrawat, police had said that while Nitesh wanted to avenge the insult heaped on him by his father by not allowing him to enter the farmhouse and not intending to give a proper share of property, the lawyer wanted full funding for contesting election.
Police said Nitesh was angry with his father, the richest candidate in the 2009 general elections with declared assets of over Rs 600 crore, who lived separately after problems arose in the family some years ago.