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Gangsters Sampat Nehra, Kali Shooter now in Kharar police custody
The duo was produced in court on Wednesday after their five-day remand, allowed to the Sohana police on September 16 for investigation into the March firing at Brew Bros Microbrewery in Sector 80, ended.
A local court on Wednesday sent gangsters Sampat Nehra and Kali Shooter, close aides of gangsters Lawrence Bishnoi and Goldy Brar, to 10-day police remand in connection with an extortion, threat, conspiracy and Arms Act case registered at the Kharar police station.
The duo was produced in court on Wednesday after their five-day remand, allowed to the Sohana police on September 16 for investigation into the March firing at Brew Bros Microbrewery in Sector 80, ended.
As the court was about to send the two gangsters to judicial custody, Kharar police presented a fresh application and were allowed 10 days for interrogation, following which they were shifted to CIA Staff headquarters in Kharar.
Both gangsters were lodged in Tihar jail and brought to Mohali on production warrant earlier in September.
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