City court remands MCOCA accused to five day police custody

New Delhi, Mar 23 (UNI) A city court today remanded a notorious criminal, charged under MCOCA (Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act) yesterday, to five day police custody.

Patiala House Court Additional Sessions Judge (ASJ) Ravinder Kaur, remanded the property dealer of Karol Bagh, Satinder Pal Singh alias Twinkle to five day police custody for further interrogation and intensive investigation.

Singh, 42, lodged in jail in connection with several other crimes, was allegedly involved in more than thirty cases of extortion, murder, attempt to murder, theft, rape, gangrape, threatening and possessing explosive substances and arms act.

He had allegedly killed Harbhajan Singh and Charanjit Singh in the Tis Hazari Court complex in 1997. He was arrested by the special cell of Delhi police on February 2, 2006.

The crime branch of Delhi police had seized 18 kgs of RDX from the alleged possession of Singh from Punjabi Bagh, according to the prosecution.

Singh was booked under sections 380 (theft in building), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), 324 (causing hurt by dangerous weapons), 325 (causing hurt), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 121 (staging war against the state), 121-A (offences against the state), 122 (collecting arms), 376 (rape), 387 (extortion), 506 (threatening) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 4 and 5 of the Explosive Substances Act and 25 and 27 of the Arms Act.

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