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The police had also told the court that during the probe, The police had also told the court that during the probe, Tyagi had disclosed about his involvement in the conspiracy of trespass and that he, along with Namdhari, had shot at Hardeep as per a plan hatched earlier among him, Namdhari and Ponty. It had said Namdhari had brought with him a number of associates armed with weapons, hockey sticks and baseball bats to facilitate forcible possession of the Chhattarpur farmhouse. Namdhari's associates help him run his various businesses in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab. In this regard, police registered two criminal cases, one of forcible dispossession of the farm house in which Hardeep was murdered and the other of murder of Ponty. Meanwhile, the court had on January 28 ordered initiation of proceedings under section 82 of the Code of Criminal Proceedings (CrPC) to declare the eight men, wanted for their alleged roles in killing Hardeep. All belong to Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh and are absconding. The eight, against whom the proceedings were ordered, are Hardayal Singh, Satnam Singh, Baj Singh, Balkar Singh, Pargat Singh, Kulbir Singh, Bakshish Singh and Dharmender. Under section 82 of the CrPC, if the court has a reason to believe that the accused is absconding or is concealing himself, it orders the prosecution to publish a notice about the accused or publicly announce or affix information about them near their house or public places for making them appear in the court. The judge had said since the NBWs issued against them could not be executed at the addresses, he was satisfied that a case has been made out to initiate the process of declaring them absconding. PTI PPS PAL