The four persons identified as Bhupender, Rajpal, Uday and Anand were produced before Metropolitan Magistrate Sandeep Garg who sent them to police custody till November 25.
“Investigation in the case is at the initial stage. The conspiracy behind the alleged incident is yet to be unearthed. “All the four accused persons are remanded to police custody for five days (November 25),” the judge said.
The four were arrested for allegedly entering a disputed farmhouse of Chadhas at Chhattarpur in south Delhi and thrashing Ponty's younger brother Hardeep men on November 17, hours before the liquor baron was killed on the same spot, police told the court today.
Police said the four accused were among a group of people who had entered the farmhouse, beat up the men of Hardeep, with whom Ponty had a dispute, and threw them out.
The police had sought five days' remand saying other co-accused are yet to be arrested in the case and these four accused are to be confronted with the articles seized from the farmhouse.
However, police remand of the four was opposed by their senior counsel K K Manan saying since the farmhouse, which the accused had allegedly trespassed into belongs to Ponty, they were unlikely to grab it.
Manan said the case has been cooked up by the police as the person (Nand Lal, Hardeep's car driver), on whose complaint FIR under various provisions of IPC including robbery, trespass, attempt to murder and kidnapping has been lodged against them, is false.
