Ponty shootout: ‘Namdhari, PSO part of conspiracy to murder
Hardeep’  New Delhi: Delhi police on Tuesday claimed before a
court here that sacked Uttarakhand minority commission chairman
SS Namdhari's PSO Sachin Tyagi allegedly conspired with him and
Ponty Chadha to kill the liquor baron's brother Hardeep.  "He
(Tyagi) himself disclosed that he was actively involved in the
conspiracy of trespass and he along with Namdhari fired shots at
Hardeep in furtherance of conspiracy made earlier with Namdhari
and Ponty Chadha," Police, which was allowed to interrogate
Tyagi in custody for three days, told Metropolitan Magistrate
Neha. Ponty and Hardeep were killed in the shootout here last
month.  "In continuation of the offence Namdhari and Tyagi fired
and killed Hardeep as per conspiracy hatched earlier...," the
court was told.  Tyagi, who was arrested last night, was
remanded in police custody to unearth the conspiracy and the
sequence of the shootout.  "Sustained custodial interrogation is
required to unearth the en