Chandigarh, Feb. 6 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday reserved its judgment on the appeals from Dera Sacha Sauda (DSS) head Gurmeet Ram Rahim and others in the October 2002 murder of journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati.

The case, which was reserved for final orders in September 2025, was listed for re-hearing on Thursday before the bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Vikram Aggarwal owing to "emergence of new facts" and "clarifications" about forensic reports of murder weapon and bullets seized by the CBI. After a brief hearing, it has been reserved again for the final orders.

Chhatrapati was shot from point-blank range at his residence on October 24, 2002, months after the paper published an anonymous letter narr...