Police files third charge sheet in Ponty shoot-out case

Delhi Police today filed the third charge sheet in connection with the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother, elaborating on role of nine persons including seven owing allegiance to sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief S S Namdhari, who is the main accused.
The charge sheet has been filed against the persons who were absconding during the probe and surrendered after the non-bailaible warrants were issued against them.
Namdhari's loyalist Satnam Singh, Balkar Singh, Baaj Singh, Pargat Singh, Kulbir Singh, Bakshish Singh and Hardayal Singh have been accused in the charge sheet of being part of a conspiracy to forcibly take into their possession the farmhouse from Ponty's brother on November 17, 2012.

The shoot-out on the day resulted in the killing of Ponty and his brother Hardeep.
"These seven have pointed out the place of incident, Farmhouse No 42 Chattarpur, and disclosed that this was the same place were on November 17, 2012 as part of the criminal conspiracy hatched they carried deadly weapons along with 15-20 associates with Ponty's manager," the police said in its charge sheet filed in the court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Raj Kumar Tripathi.
They "broke open the locks of the Farmhouse No 42 DLF Chattapur, Delhi and looted the mobile phones of staffs Hardeep Singh and forcibly evicted them.

"Therefore all the above seven accused person have also pointed out the place of conspiracy...," they said.
The agency also named Premveer and Inderpal, the private security guards of Ponty's brother Rajender Chadha, as accused in the case, saying they abducted the complainant Nandlal, who was Ponty's man and kept him illegally.
It also said that all the nine accused were seen in the CCTV footage at the spot on the day of the incident and had actively taken part in the conspiracy hatched by Ponty and Namdhari.