Sacked Uttarakahnd minority panel chief Sukhdev Singh Namdhari has been booked on charges of murder in liquor baron Ponty Chadha's shootout case. Delhi police informed this to court, which extended the police custody of the politico by three more days. Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav extended Namdhari's police custody till December 2 saying the Crime Branch has to unearth the conspiracy behind the November 17 shootout, in which Ponty and his brother Hardeep had lost their lives.

The court, meanwhile, sent six others arrested for allegedly trespassing into and looting the disputed Chhattarpur farm house of Chadha's family to 14 days of judicial custody.