Move to get ex-cricketer declared proclaimed offender

NEW DELHI, JUNE 12. The Uttaranchal police will approach the Haldwani court in Nainital to order the attachment of properties of the former cricketer, Mr. Manoj Prabhakar, and proclaim him an offender.

The State Director-General of Police, Mr. A.K. Sharan, told UNI on phone from Dehra Dun today that ``we have tried to locate him in Delhi and Rajasthan. But his whereabouts are not known.

The police of the two States have told us that he was not present in the area under their jurisdiction. We are left with no choice but to ask the court to proclaim him an offender and order attachment of his property.''

However, the question of attaching his property comes only if Mr. Prabhakar decides against replying to the notices issued on the request for declaring him proclaimed offender, he clarified.

Mr. Prabhakar has been missing ever since non-bailable warrants were issued and the Uttaranchal police went on his hot trail. When the Uttaranchal police sent its team to Delhi to arrest him, Mr. Prabhakar had reportedly left his residence for Jaipur to participate in a `seminar'.

Delhi police, which was requested by the Uttaranchal police for execution of the NBWs, also confirmed that the cricketer was not in the capital.

His family initially said that Mr. Prabhakar was in Jaipur and would soon return home. But the Rajasthan police, when contacted by the Uttaranchal police, said that the cricketer had not been seen anywhere in the city.

Mr. Sharan said he had sent a team to Delhi second time to trace the cricketer but it returned empty handed. ``I have also been in touch with the officers of the Rajasthan police, but they say that Mr. Prabhakar is not in town.''

The Nainital police on May 31 last registered a case under Sections 406 and 420 (cheating and fraud) of the Indian Penal Code against the former cricketer and two others for swindling public money through the Uttaranchal-based Apace India Group of Companies in his capacity as director.

- UNI

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