Kanda surrenders after beating clueless cops in hide-and-seek

Kanda,accused of abetting the suicide of his former employee Geetika Sharma,was formally arrested and produced before a Delhi court which sent him to police custody for seven days.

While the Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar tweeted on Friday morning that his “best boys” were on the job of tracking and arresting Kanda,his men appeared clueless,waiting for the businessman-politician to surrender.

After rumours of Kanda’s surrender started doing the rounds,the North West district police set up barricades and conducted checks in the whole district.

As policemen and reporters waited outside the police station,Kanda’s brother Govind arrived with his entourage at 12.20 am and announced that the surrender would happen within “15-20 minutes.”

Kanda’s slogan-shouting supporters and Govind were detained by police. Govind was later arrested for a cheque-bouncing case. Eight police teams,meanwhile,were on the road,checking each vehicle,hoping to arrest Kanda on his way to the police station and salvage some pride.

A battery of Kanda lawyers arrived shortly. “Why don’t you ask them when he is surrendering… Honestly,we don’t have any idea,” said an officer.

Kanda’s counsel received a call at 3.50 saying the former minister had entered Delhi from Gurgaon. His counsel reportedly met him outside a banquet hall just a km from the Ashok Vihar police station where he was reportedly hiding between two parked trucks. Kanda’s counsel called a couple of TV reporters and asked them to meet him secretly. They left immediately and at 4.05 Kanda arrived in the van of STV UP News,a local channel. He had crossed four police checkpoints.

Before being taken inside the police station,Kanda told reporters that he had willingly joined the investigations and had not been arrested.