Chandigarh, Aug. 9 (Agencies): Vikas Barala, the Haryana politician’s son wanted in a stalking case, failed to keep his first date with the police on Wednesday.
Father Subhash Barala, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s state chief, said Vikas was on his way and would reach soon to cooperate in the investigation.
Vikas, accused together with a friend of chasing a young woman in his car on Friday night, had been called for questioning at the police station at 11am. A large police force had formed a cordon around the station.
Chandigarh’s police chief, Tajender Singh Luthra, said Vikas had refused to receive the notice so the police had pasted it on the outside of his house.
The director general said CCTV footage from different places of the Friday night incident indicated that the accused were chasing the girl, Varnika Kundu, 29.
Luthra said Vikas and his friend Ashish Kumar (27), who were earlier arrested and granted bail, had refused to give blood and urine samples for medical examination, which could go against them during prosecution.
”The accused are law graduates and they are well versed with the law. They refused to give samples (of blood and urine) to the duty doctor. Because they know that under law, they can refuse this,” Luthra told reporters here.
Luthra stressed the Chandigarh police will do “everything under the sun” to ensure the complainant gets justice.
The police had reacted promptly when Varnika, daughter of a senior bureaucrat, called up the emergency number, and when she later filed the complaint.
In his first appearance before the media in this case, Luthra said they had “sufficient” CCTV footage in connection with the incident.
