A day after Delhi Police recovered a gun from Sukhdev Singh Namdhari’s house at Bazpur in Uttarakhand, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) expelled him from the party on Monday.
Sacked Uttarakhand Minorities Commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, arrested recently in connection with Ponty Chadha murder case, was on Monday expelled from the BJP.
Namdhari was close to Ponty Chadha for several years, and in the mining business in Uttarakhand he was known as the slain liquor baron's 'front man'.
Minutes before he was whisked away by Delhi Police personnel, Sukhdev Singh Namdhari spoke to mediapersons and was about to address a press conference at his Bajpur residence in Uttarakhand on Friday.
Sacked Uttarakhand minorities commission chairman Sukhdev Singh Namdhari was today sent to police custody by a Delhi court in connection with the killing of liquor baron Ponty Chaddha and his brother Hardeep.
Sukhdev Singh Namdhari, former chairman of the Uttarakhand Minorities Commission, has 14 criminal cases registered against him in different police stations of Udham Singh Nagar district. Anupam Trivedi reports.
The Uttarakhand government on Monday decided to remove Sukhdev Singh Namdhari as chairman of the minorities commission following reports that he accompanied Ponty Chadha to his farmhouse on Saturday where the liquor baron was killed in a shootout.
A woman tourist from Holland was injured after she was pushed out off a running train by an unidentified person who robbed her in Haridwar district, police said today.
Slight intensity tremors measuring 3 on the Richter scale hit parts of Pithoragarh district in Uttarakhand today. The tremors lasting a few seconds occurred at 12.16am in border areas of Pithoragarh district, Met office director Anand Sharma said.
Senior BJP leader and former Uttarakhand chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank's wife Kusum Kanta died in Dehra Dun on Sunday at the age of 50 after protracted illness.
As the Uttarakhand government sits idle on the pending demand for the uniform film policy, the Australia-India Council (AIC) and Australian film-makers have shown interest in promoting picturesque locales of the state.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav seems to be exploring the possibility of winning the support of over sidelined Congress leader ND Tiwari for the next Lok Sabha elections. Anupam Trivedi reports.
Harish Rawat's elevation as Union cabinet minister has not come as a surprise for many in the ruling Congress in Uttarakhand. Anupam Trivedi reports.
Due to limited energy reserves and ever growing pressure on them, nuclear energy is the only option left before the country, Vice President M Hamid Ansari said today.
In a typical case of law enforcers joining hands with the law breakers, officials entrusted with the task to ensure blanket ban on noise pollution, within a 500-metre radius of Corbett Tiger Reserve (CTR), allegedly partied at a resort near the reserve.