The district court of Panchkula has framed charges of murder, destruction of evidence, criminal conspiracy, cheating forgery, using genuine documents as forged and prevention of atrocities under SC/ST Act against Himachal Pradesh MlA Ram Kumar Chaudhary in the case of murder of his former employee Jyoti on Monday. Court has also rejected his bail plea.
Amandeep Bindra, counsel of Ram Kumar Chaudhary, said that court of session judge Ravi Kumar Sondhi, framed the charges against the main accused under section 302 of IPC, destruction of evidence-201, criminal conspiracy-120 B, cheating-420, forgery-467, using genuine documents as forged-471 and prevention of atrocities under SC/ST Act here during the hearing of the case.
Court also framed charges of murder under section 302, destruction of evidence-201and criminal conspiracy-120 B against Dharampal, Gurmeet, Paramjit and Tilak Raj. Besides these it also framed charges of harbouring of offender under section 212 of IPC on against Chaudhary’s brother Harbhajan, Kamaljeet, Nirmal and Baljeet. However, others including Ashish and Pankaj Bhandari have been charged for forgery-467, using genuine documents as forged-471and criminal conspiracy-120 B.
24-year-old Jyoti, the victim of Hoshiarpur in Punjab, was found dead near Sector 21 of Panchkula town, 15 km from Chandigarh, Nov 22 last year. Her head was smashed. She belonged to a poor, Dalit family in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district.