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POLICE HOT ON MANOJ HEELS 

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Staff Reporter Published 26.08.99, 12:00 AM
Calcutta, Aug. 26 :    Calcutta, Aug. 26:  After four months and several abortive attempts to arrest him, detectives today said that Manoj Sharma, the businessman who allegedly had a hand in the murder of his son, will soon walk into their dragnet. Police commissioner D.C. Vajpai said: ?We received information today about Sharma?s whereabouts. He has been running from one state to another, but now we feel that his arrest is round the corner.? In the last week of April, Sharma, a resident of Salt Lake, took his sons Mudit and Sumit for a Sunday jaunt to Victoria Memorial. He told his wife they would return after dinner. Mudit and his father never came back. His car was found on Park Street with a dead Mudit in it. Sumit was traced to Debra, Midnapore, walking aimlessly along the road. Sumit later told the police that they had met a gandi (dirty) aunty in Victoria Memorial, who misbehaved with him. Detectives questioned the owner of the pony that the boys had ridden. He confirmed the presence of the woman and described the colour of the salwar-kameez she had been wearing. The boy said they were drugged by the woman, who is absconding. Sumit told interrogators that they got into their car and drove towards Vidyasagar Setu, when he noticed the woman was following them in another car. Detectives said the gandi aunty had tried to strangle him. Investigations by the police revealed that Sharma also was involved in the killing. Sources today said deputy commissioner of police, detective department (DC-DD) special cell, Manoj Malaviya, had left with a team of policemen for a place in Bihar last night. Sharma, according to them, is hiding there. But DC, DD, Narayan Ghosh said this evening that Manoj and a woman were spotted in Chandipur, in Balasore district of Orissa. The detective department got a tip-off from Orissa this morning that a man fitting Sharma?s description and a middle-aged woman had been seen in that area. ?A police team has left for Balasore this morning. I am waiting for feedback. We are hoping that we will be able to locate them,? Ghosh said. Police sources said Sharma and the woman are shuttling between hotels in Chandipur. The detective department had raided two hotels, one in Calcutta and another in Digha, only to find that Sharma had moved out a few days earlier. Managers of the hotels, who were shown photographs of Sharma, confirmed he had been staying there. Investigators said Sharma was in Digha for about two days after the murder and then shifted to a hotel on Free School Street. Police said Sharma was carrying Rs 1.5 lakh with him when he disappeared.    
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