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Body at forest resort: Mohali court denies anticipatory bail to Lt Col Sandhu

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MohaliIn yet another blow to Lt Col BS Sandhu (retd), chairman of Worldwide Immigration Consultancy Services (WWICS) and owner of Forest Hill Resort in Nayagaon, a Mohali court on Wednesday dismissed his plea for anticipatory bail in the case of murder of a Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) staffer. Sandhu, who has been untraceable, was told to join investigations after police arrested three employees of his resort on March 26 for allegedly killing the 28-year-old Burail man and disposing of his body in Pinjore. Victim Abhishek Guleria had been missing since leaving a relative’s house in Nayagaon late on March 13. The employees had claimed they found Guleria’s body in a septic tank at the resort on March 22 and were told to dispose it of by Sandhu. On April 12, the Punjab and Haryana high court had rejected Sandhu’s anticipatory bail plea, calling it “premature” as the plea moved in the lower court on April 5 was still pending. Now, with the local court dismissing ...
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Body in Forest Hill resort: Mohali court to hear Sandhu’s anticipatory bail plea today

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A local court will on Tuesday take up the anticipatory bail plea of Lt Col BS Sandhu (retd), owner of Forest Hill Resort and Worldwide Immigration Consultancy Services (WWICS), who is named in the murder of a 28-year-old CTU staffer. Besides, police will move a fresh plea on Tuesday, seeking directions to record the voice of Gurdeep Bains, an employee of the resort, who is accused of murdering the victim, Abhishek Guleria. Bains had refused to give his voice samples a week ago. Sandhu was summoned by the police on March 27 to join investigation after three employees of the resort — liasoning officer Gurdeep Bains, his assistant Tarsem Singh and security in-charge Balwinder Singh—, currently in judicial custody, had told investigators that they had found Guleria’s body in the tank of the resort’s sewage treatment plant, following which they informed Sandhu The trio had claimed that it was on Sandhu’s behest that they had wrapped the body and dumped it on the Pinjore-Badd...
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Arrest warrants against WWICS chairman Col BS Sandhu in a murder case

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  A local court has issued the arrest warrants of  Col BS Sandhu , the chairman and MD of World Wide Immigration Consultancy Services Ltd WWICS in a case related to murder. Sandhu, owner of Forest Hill Resort, had to join police investigation in a murder case of Abhishek Guleria. Abhishek was a CTU employee.  Three accused already in police custody have excepted that Abhishek’s body had been disposed off at the behest of Col Sandhu. Regarding Sandhu’s whereabouts, according to his staff, Sandhu was hospitalised after the registration of a case against him by Mohali police. Sandhu’s staff though did not reveal where he had been hospitalised. Earlier, Rajiv Bajaj, Director of  WWICS  had said that a CBI probe was important into the entire case. He said that to fulfill the agenda of certain influential people, the Punjab Police had implicated and arrested Devinder Sandhu in the Inderpreet Chadha suicide case. Now even his father Col BS Sandhu was being im...
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Nayagaon death: SIT chief visits spot, victim’s family demands thorough probe

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Nayagaon Police are yet to solve the mystery surrounding the death of 31-year-old CTU employee Abhishek Guleria, whose body was found in a water tank at the Forest Hill Resorts, owned by Lt Col (Retd) B S Sandhu, on March 25. The family members of Abhishek, however, said police should question the three persons, who were with him before his death. SIT chief, IG Shashi Prabha, visited the spot on Friday. Abhishek’s elder brother Ranjan told Chandigarh Newsline that two friends of Abhishek, Rajesh and Ashwini, and Ashwini’s brother-in-law Ravi, were with him on March 13, before his death. “Rajesh belongs to our native village near Jwalamukhi in Kangra district of Himachal Pradesh. Since he was coming to Chandigarh on March 13, my mother sent two shirts and a mobile phone for Abhishek through Rajesh,” said Ranjan. Rajesh told the police that after reaching Chandigarh, he called Abhishek and asked him to come to ISBT, Sector 43, so that he could give him the shirts and the cellphone....
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Court issues arrest warrants against Baljit Singh Sandhu

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MOHALI: A local court on Saturday issued arrest warrants against Lt Col Baljit Singh Sandhu (retd), the chairman of immigration consultancy company WWICS and owner of Forest Hill Golf and Country Club in Nayagaon, in the CTU employee death case. The police had called Sandhu for questioning following the disclosure statement of the three accused arrested in the case, but he is yet to join the probe. Abhishek Guleria was found dead on March 25 after he had gone missing on March 13. Sources said Sandhu was absconding and despite summoning him for recording his statement under Section 160 of CrPC, he has failed to appear before the police. A senior police officer said, “We have got the arrest warrants against Sandhu. A massive search operation has been launched to arrest him. Police are raiding his suspected hideouts.” Police said the house of Sandhu in Sector 10, Chandigarh, as well as in Sector 69, Mohali, have been raided. However, police did not find him On Saturday, a local...
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Non-bailable arrest warrants issued against Lt Col Sandhu

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  The Mohali police claimed to have got a tip-off that Lt Col BS Sandhu (retd) might be staying in Uttar Pradesh. A senior official of the Mohali police said they got the tip-off that Sandhu could be staying in Kanpur or Gorakhpur. “He is not using his phone number, but some new number. We are trying to locate him,” said the official. Notably, the Mohali police have got Sandhu’s non-bailable arrest warrants from a court in Kharar on Saturday as he (Sandhu) failed to join police investigations in the case of murder of CTU employee Abhishek Guleria so far. Sandhu was nominated in the case on March 27. Meanwhile, four persons, Ramesh, Ramesh Chand, Dharampal and Davinder, who were also named in the case by the Mohali police on Saturday, have also gone underground, said the police. The foursome are said to be security guards at Forest Hill Resort, owned by Lt Col Sandhu, at Nayagaon. The police said these four persons were not found at their respective residences ...
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Forest resort: 3-member SIT formed to probe ‘murder’, WWICS head fails to join probe

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Three days after a 28-year-old CTU employee was found dead on the Pinjore-Baddi road, the Punjab director general of police (DGP) on Wednesday constituted a three-member special investigation team (SIT) to investigate the murder. The SIT, headed by inspector general (IG, crime) Shashi Prabha Diwedi, hasDhruman Nimbale, assistant inspector general (AIG, intelligence), and Mohali senior superintendent of police (SSP) Kuldeep Singh Chahal as members.Victim Abhishek Guleria had gone missing after visiting a relative’s house in Nayagaon on March 14. He was found dead on the Pinjore-Baddi road on March 25. On Tuesday, Mohali police had named Lt Col Baljit Singh Sandhu (retd), chairman of WWICS Group, an immigration consultancy, and owner of Forest Hill Resort in Nayagaon, in the murder FIR. Besides, cops had arrested three employees of the upscale resort, located 5km from PGIMER, Chandigarh, for allegedly dumping the victim on the Pinjore-Baddi road on March 22. The trio —...
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