By IANS,
New Delhi: A court here Thursday sent four Uttarakhand policemen to judicial custody till May 9 and issued fresh non-bailable warrants against three others in the 2009 killing of an MBA student in Dehradun.
The case was shifted to Delhi by the Supreme Court last month.
Student Ranbir Singh of Ghaziabad went to Dehradun looking for a job when a group of policemen shot him dead July 2, 2009 after branding him a robber. The victim took 29 bullets. Eighteen policemen were blamed for the crime.
Special Judge V.K. Maheshwari sent sub-inspectors G.D. Bhatt, Santosh Jaiswal, Neeraj Yadav and Chandra Mohan, all of them accused of murder, to judicial custody.
“The accused are charged under serious offence… I am of the considered view that the accused be sent to custody till May 9,” the court said.
The court earlier issued non-bailable warrants against all seven policemen charged with murder. The three who filed to appear in the court are sub-inspectors Nitin Chauhan and Rajendra Bist and constable Ajit Kumar.
The court directed Superintendent of Police of Dehradun to present the other three police personnel before it May 9.
After initial probe in Uttarakhand, the seven policemen were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in September 2010. They got bail later.
Eleven other policemen have been charged with offences other than murder.
The chargesheet was filed in the court of special judicial magistrate (CBI), Dehradun, Dec 22, 2009 against 18 accused. They were booked for murder, kidnapping and tampering with evidence.
The case was shifted to Delhi from Dehradun by the Supreme Court March 17 after the victim’s family voiced fear that Uttarakhand Police could influence the trial in the state.