Decision on Lt Col Sandhu’s bail plea today

Tribune News Service

Mohali, April 17

In the murder case of CTU employee Abhishek Guleria, a Mohali court will take decision on the anticipatory bail application of Lt Col BS Sandhu (retd), owner of the WWICS and Forest Hill Resort at Nayagaon, on Wednesday.

In the hearing on Tuesday, arguments of both defence counsel and public prosecutor took place following which the court would give its verdict on Sandhu’s application.

Earlier, the defence counsel claimed that his client (Sandhu) was falsely implicated in the murder case. He said there was no injury mark on the victim’s body. He added that his client intended to join the police investigation but he was scared that he would be implicated in a false case like his son Davinder Sandhu, who had been falsely involved in the Inderjit Singh Chahdha suicide case by the Punjab Police. The defence counsel also stated that the recovery of the victim’s body from a septic tank of Sandhu’s resort did not mean that he was murdered.

On the other hand, the public prosecutor opposed Sandhu’s anticipatory bail on plea that as to why Sandhu or his staff did not inform the police after the recovery of Abhishek’s body from the septic tank of Forest Hill Resort and why did they dispose of the body in a deserted area. “These actions of them showed that they were not innocent,” said the public prosecutor.

It is to be noted that the Mohali police have nominated Sandhu in the murder case of Abhishek, whose highly decomposed body was recovered from a deserted area along the Pinjor-Baddi road in Haryana on March 26 by the police. Abhishek had gone missing on March 13 from Nayagaon after partying with his acquaintances. Despite being nominated in the case, Sandhu did not join police investigation and applied for anticipatory bail first in the local court and then in the HC.