New Delhi, December 5
A Delhi court today extended sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Committee chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari’s police custody by two days. He is booked under charges of murder in the Ponty Chadha shootout case.

Metropolitan Magistrate Rajinder Singh extended Namdhari’s police custody till December 7 saying he was required to be interrogated for the recovery of the alleged weapon and vehicle used in the crime.

“The accused is further remanded in two days of police custody. The accused be produced before this court or any other competent court upon the expiry of the police remand on December 7,” the court said. The police pleaded before the court that the accused was required for further investigation in the case to identify the role of his driver Bakshish Singh.

It said the driver had taken away Namdhari’s pistol and ammunition used in the crime and helped the accused destroy evidence.

The vehicles used in the crime belonged to Namdhari. The police informed the court that the weapon used to shoot Ponty’s brother Hardeep was handed over to Bakshish, who took the same to Bajpur in Rudrapur. The driver is still at large.

Namdhari’s police custody was extended after the Delhi Police Crime Branch told the court that during interrogation, the accused had disclosed the name of his associates and his custodial interrogation was required for their identification.

The police maintained that Namdhari had killed Hardeep in the November-17 shootout at Chhatarpur farmhouse No. 42 in south Delhi.