Chandigarh, March 20 -- A local court granted Chandigarh police an additional seven-day remand of key conspirator in the Rs.590-crore fraud Vikram Wadhwa.

Wadhwa, key conspirator in fraud involving accounts of several Haryana government departments and the Rs.190-crore financial irregularities linked to the municipal corporation Chandigarh and Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science & Technology Promotion Society (CREST), was arrested by the Chandigarh police crime branch on March 14 from Kharar.

Earlier, the court had sent him to 5-day police remand. On the last day of remand --Thursday--he was again presented in the court and his remand was sent to 7-days additional police remand.

Three applications, filed by Wadhwa's defense counsel...