Ponty Chadha case: Two absconding accused surrender in court

The two men, wanted for their alleged roles in the killings of liquor baron Ponty Chadha and his brother Hardeep at a farm house here, today surrendered before a Delhi court which sent them to police custody for two days.
The two accused, who were chargesheeted alongwith sacked Uttarakhand minorities panel chief S S Namdhari and 19 others for killings on November 17, last year, appeared before Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Raj Kumar Tripathi who remanded them in police custody till May 12.
Having absconded for over five months, Premveer and Inderpal surrendered only after the judge on April 25 had ordered initiation of proceedings under section 82 of the Code of Criminal Proceedings (CrPC) to declare them proclaimed offenders.

The two, against whom the proceedings were ordered, were private security guards of Ponty's brother Rajender Chadha and are natives of Uttar Pradesh.
Under section 82 of CrPC, if the court has a reason to believe that the accused is absconding or concealing himself, it orders the prosecution to publish a notice about the accused or publicly announce or affix information about the person near his house or public places for making him appear in the court.
Meanwhile, the court extended till May 23 the judicial custody of seven accused named in a charge sheet for their alleged roles in the killing of Ponty and Hardeep.

Seeking two days custody of the accused, the Delhi Police Crime Branch officials told the court that they have to be interrogated throughly as they were also involved in the commission of the crime.
Ponty and Hardeep, who had an alleged property dispute, were killed in a shootout at a Chhattarpur farmhouse in south Delhi.