• October 6, 2006: The CJM court intervened and asked the police to file an FIR in Payal’s missing case. “It is just that the police should examine the case”, ruled the court.

• October 6, 2006: Moninder filed an affidavit in the CJM court, stating that he did not have any role in Payal’s kidnapping because he was even not in Delhi when Payal went missing. He said he stayed in Chandigarh from May 5 to June 10 because of his father’s illness and subsequent death. To corroborate his statement he attached his father death certificate, a toll tax slip and a diesel voucher of a petrol pump on the GT Karnal Road.

• December 6, 2006: In his affidavit in the Allahabad High Court, Nand Lal’s lawyer Pradeep Pandey stated: “That the deponent (Lal) is a poor person and Moninder Singh is a very rich person and has political links. Therefore the deponent does not have any faith in the present investigation and hence prays that the investigation be handed over to CBI.”