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MOHALI: A local court on Saturday issued arrest  warrants  against Lt Col Baljit Singh Sandhu (retd), the chairman of immigration consultancy company WWICS and owner of Forest Hill Golf and Country Club in Nayagaon, in the CTU employee death case. The police had called Sandhu for questioning following the disclosure statement of the three accused arrested in the case, but he is yet to join the probe. Abhishek Guleria was found dead on March 25 after he had gone missing on March 13. Sources said Sandhu was absconding and despite summoning him for recording his statement under Section 160 of CrPC, he has failed to appear before the police. A senior police officer said, “We have got the arrest warrants against Sandhu. A massive search operation has been launched to arrest him. Police are raiding his suspected hideouts.” Police said the house of Sandhu in Sector 10, Chandigarh, as well as in Sector 69, Mohali, have been raided. However, police did not ...

Lt Col Baljit Singh Sandhu (retd), chairman of WWICS Group  and owner of Forest Hill Resort in Nayagaon, near Chandigarh  is under the scanner in a weird case where a dead body has been found in Pinjore – a good 30 kilometres away from the resort he owns. The Mohali police have arrested three Forest Hill Resort employees in the case. As per reports, Sandhu’s name has also been included in the FIR though no charges have been pressed against him. A case under Sections 302 (murder), 201(destruction of evidence) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered at the Nayagaon police station. The Punjab director general of police (DGP) has now constituted a three-member special investigation team (SIT) to investigate the murder. Victim Abhishek Guleria, 28, a Chandigarh Transport Undertaking (CTU) employee. had gone missing after visiting a relative’s house in Nayagaon on March 14. His body was recovered from along the Pinjore Baddi road on March 25. ...

The district and session court granted bail to Mohali-based immigration firm WWICS owner Col BS Sandhu’s (retd) son Davinder Sandhu and Kay Ghuman on Wednesday. Sandhu and Ghuman were among 11 persons who were in Amritsar jail for their alleged role in abetting the suicide of former vice-president of Chief Khalsa Diwan (CKD) Inderpreet Singh Chadha, who committed suicide by shooting himself in his car on Ajnala Road on January 3. Inderpreet was reportedly upset over the controversy that erupted after a video showing his father — former chief of CKD Charanjit Singh Chadha — in an objectionable position with a woman principal. Davinder Sandhu and Kay Ghuman’s counsel advocate Puneet Bali confirmed that Amritsar district and session judge Karamjit Singh granted bail to the duo. Another lawyer Gautam Majithia, familiar with the development, said the bail application of Sandhu, Ghuman and Surjit Singh were filed in court. “However, court has rejected bail plea of Surjit,” he added...