In a major breakthrough in the probe into the killings of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep, a Delhi police team on Sunday recovered a pistol allegedly used in the farmhouse shootout from Sukhbir Singh Namdhari’s residence in Uttarakhand. Mr Namdhari, a former chairman of the Uttarakhand minorities panel, was with Ponty at the time of the shootout.
The police team, accompanied by Mr Namdhari, arrived at his residence at Bajpur, Uttarakhand, Sunday morning and recovered the 7.62 mm pistol of Indian make there, a senior Uttarakhand police official said. “The Delhi police searched his residence in Uttarakhand’s Uddham Singh Nagar district for other possible evidence,” he added.
Sukhbir Singh Namdhari was picked up for interrogation by the Delhi police from his Bajpur home on Friday and later arrested.
The police claims Mr Namdhari was the main conspirator in the shootout over a week ago in which Ponty and Hardeep Chadha were killed. Mr Namdhari was sacked as Uttarakhand minorities commission chairman after his proximity to Ponty Chadha came to light.
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Pac suggested way to assess loss: cag man
Age Correspondent
New Delhi, Nov. 25
Former CAG official R.P. Singh on Sunday asserted it was the Public Accounts Committee that suggested a methodology to the CAG to calculate the 2G spectrum allocation loss, pegged at `1.76 lakh crore in its final report. He claimed there was evidence to back this up, pointing to the note prepared by R.B. Sinha, CAG’s director-general (report central).
The former official, noting PAC chief Murli Manohar Joshi had evinced a keen interest in the loss figure after the 2010 draft report, said CAG and PAC officials were in touch with each other even before the CAG submitted its report in November 2010. He refused to name Dr Murli Manohar Joshi in this context, though, saying he didn’t have any documentary evidence.