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Police fail to locate Haryana IG's wife

By Rajesh Ahuja

CHANDIGARH AUG. 9. A Delhi Police team, stationed at Panchkula near here, failed to interrogate Madhu Sharma — wife of the Haryana Inspector-General of Police (Prisons), R. K. Sharma who is at large — and her daughters who escaped the surveillance. According to highly-placed sources, Ms. Sharma and her daughters have presumably left for a safe haven in a posh South Delhi locality.

Sources in the Haryana police said that the Delhi Police team went to the Sector Six residence of Mr. Sharma, prime suspect in the murder of journalist Shivani Bhatnagar, at 11 a.m. to find that Ms. Sharma and her daughters were not there.

Interestingly, the question being asked is why didn't police pick them up for questioning after Ms. Sharma addressed an impromptu press conference at Panchkula on Thursday.

And only a handful of Panchkula-based journalists, besides the electronic media, were invited for the conference.

Neither the Delhi Police nor their Haryana counterparts put up any special `nakas' to trace the high-profile family. Things went on as normal at the Shinghu border with policemen routinely stopping a car or two headed for Haryana.

The Haryana Police have also reportedly asked Mr. Sharma, against whom a non-bailable warrant has been issued, to rejoin duty immediately on the expiry of his leave tomorrow and cooperate with the Delhi Police.

Our New Delhi Staff Reporter writes:

After failing to trace Mr. Sharma, police apparently resorted to a wait-and-watch policy even as they claimed to have done their homework for the next hearing on his anticipatory bail application before a Panchkula court on Saturday.

Police are confident that he would not be able to secure anticipatory bail as a non-bailable warrant had been issued against him and his accomplice, Satya Prakash. They have also appointed a senior lawyer, S.K. Saxena, as Special Prosecutor to oppose his bail plea.

Incidentally, Mr. Saxena is also the Special Prosecutor in the Jessica Lal case.

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