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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 ...

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 —...

  Nalapad and his aides have been charged under various sections of the IPC, the severest of which is Section 307 (attempt to murder), a non-bailable offense.  The bail plea of Mohammed Nalapad Haris, former general secretary of the Bengaluru city Youth Congress and son of Congress MLA NA Haris, was rejected on Friday. Bengaluru's City Civil and Sessions Court also refused the bail plea of six accomplices of Nalapad, identified as Arun Babu (28), Manjunath (31), Mohammed Afras Ashraf (23), Balakrishna (25), Abhishek (23) and Nafi Mohammed Nasir. They are all accused of assaulting 24-year-old Vidwath Loganathan. "There are clearly prima facie ingredients of Section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code," the court ruled. Nalapad and his aides have been charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, the severest of which is Section 307 (attempt to murder), which is a non-bailable offense. The strictest punishment a person convict...

A Bengaluru court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Mohammad Harris Nalapad, son of Karnataka Congress MLA NA Haris and six others.   Bengaluru: A Bengaluru court on Friday rejected the bail plea of Mohammad Harris Nalapad , son of Karnataka Congress MLA NA Haris and six others. Nalapad and the others are in judicial custody since February 21 for assaulting a man in a restaurant on February 17, 2018. "Court expressed that there are going to be chances of witnesses getting influenced and the investigation getting coerced. It is a victory for justice and society at large," said the public prosecutor, as per ANI . Earlier on February 21, the court had sent Nalapad and others, who confessed to thrashing and threatening a man at a pub in UB City on February 19 and were arrested the next day, to judicial custody till March 7. As per the sequence of events, the victim was having dinner at a restaurant in UB Ci...