Chandigarh, May 10 -- A district court has dismissed the regular bail plea of Manoj Pandey, accused in a 2021 case involving alleged land grabbing, forgery and extortion linked to an ancestral property dispute in Bihar.

Judicial Magistrate first class Navneet Kaur passed the order on May 6 while hearing the plea in an FIR registered at Sector 17 police station under Sections 387(putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt for extortion), 466(forgery of court records or public registers), 467(forgery of valuable securities,wills, or authority to transfer property), 468(forgery for the purpose of cheating), 471(fraudulent or dishonest use of forged document or electronicrecord as genuine), 507(criminal intimidation by an anonymous c...