Farid’s remand extended

Tribune News Service

With the UT police failing to trace the main accused, Balraj Singh Randhawa, and the BMW car involved in the hit-and-run case during the three-day remand of co-accused Harmehtab Singh, alias Farid, a local court today extended Farid’s remand by three days. The police had demanded seven-day remand for Farid from the court.

Akansh Sen, nephew of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh, was run over by the luxury car on February 9 in Sector 9.

Appearing before a duty magistrate here, public prosecutor Sachin Dhillon said the accused used to go to Manali and they wanted to get some clue regarding the case from there. Secondly, he added, the police had to recover the mobile phone and SIM cards used by Farid while being on the run in Bengaluru.

On the other hand, Farid’s counsel Vishal Deep Goyal said, “The police are creating a new story now. They just want to be in newspapers and have failed to recover anything from the accused during the remand. The investigating team is taking the matter casually.”

He said, “The police have concocted a story as Akansh was hit and not run over.”

Speaking to the media outside the court complex, Poonum Dilawari, SHO of the Sector 3 police station, said, “The accused is not cooperating with the police and is changing his statements. Efforts are on to make a headway in the case.”