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NEW DELHI, MAY 7: While the police claim that they had to sweat it out to arrest Manu Sharma’s friends, Amardeep Singh Gill and Alok Khanna, their lawyers maintain that the two had gone to the police willingly.
Defence counsel countered Mehrauli SHO Surinder Kumar’s stand that the police had to work hard for the arrests. The lawyers also lashed out at the police for “falsely implicating them in a case”.
Joint Commissioner of Police (Southern Rangs), Amod Kanth, says that although the two had presented themselves before the police, it was after interrogation that the police concluded about their role in committing the crime.
According to his counsel R K Anand, Tony had gone to the police after he read about his alleged involvement in national newspapers. He refutes the police claim that the duo had first escaped. “They work with a multinational and live an honourable life. They never left the Capital and continued to go to their office even after the incident.”
Anand argues that if the police were looking for them, they should have summoned them and sent them notices.
