Chandigarh, Nov. 1 :
Chandigarh, Nov. 1:
Former Test cricketer Yograj Singh, accused of selling and storing adulterated petrol, will be produced in court tomorrow.
He surrendered before judicial magistrate (first class) Pushpinder Singh yesterday and was remanded in judicial custody. The court had issued arrest warrants against him on October 10.
Yograj, father of cricketer Yuvraj Singh, had been absconding since June 30 after the city police registered a case against him under Sections 420, 285, 286 and 120-B of the IPC and Section 23 of the Petroleum Act, 1934, for cheating, criminal conspiracy and negligible conduct with combustible substances along with violation of the Petroleum Act.
The police had also charged him with shifting petrol from his fuel station in Sector 17 to his farmhouse in Mani Majra near here.
Over 20 drums, each of 200 litres capacity, filled with the spurious fuel, were seized by the police from the farmhouse on June 30. Yograj has denied that the drums belong to him.
The police are planning a number of raids after Yograj's surrender. 'We are likely to get more evidence against him soon,' a senior officer said.
Efforts are on to seek police remand for Yograj when he is produced in court tomorrow.
Yograj had applied for bail but it was rejected by Punjab and Haryana High Court on August 28. He then applied for bail to the Supreme Court and went underground. He would have been declared a proclaimed offender on November 10, the next date of hearing.
The other accused in the case, Gurmeet Kaur, has been granted bail by the Union Territory district and session judge on furnishing a bond of Rs 10,000 and surety of the same amount.
She had filed an affidavit before the court stating that the farmhouse from which the
adulterated petrol had been recovered belonged to her and it was kept for shooting a movie sequence.
The cases against Yograj, though filed on June 30, had reportedly begun earlier when Bharat Petroleum authorities collected samples from his petrol pump following complaints about the quality of fuel sold there.
Many Punjab government car drivers have reportedly complained that the engines of their vehicles started malfunctioning after they purchased fuel from Yograj's petrol pump.
Efforts to contact Yograj's wife proved futile.