Chandigarh: Harmehtab Singh Farid, one of the accused in the murder of HP Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh’s relative Akansh Sen, has been arrested from Haridwar.
Confirming the arrest, Chandigarh Police sources said that Farid was hiding in an Ashram in Haridwar. The arrest was carried out by Inspector Amanjot and team, which acted on a tip-off and narrowed in on Farid.
The accused was denied anticipatory bail by a Chandigarh court on Wednesday.
Himachal Pradesh Chief minister Virbhadra Singh’s kin Akansh Sen, who owned a restaurant BoomBox Cafe in Sector 9, was crushed after a BMW car hit him outside his house in the same locality. The car was allegedly driven by its owner Balraj Randhawa with Harmehtab sitting beside him.
The head of the Akansh Sen was crushed under the tyres of the vehicle last week.
As per the information, Farid is the great grandson of former chief minister of PEPSU state Gian Singh Rarewale. Akansh sen and Farid had the personal grudges with each other which resulted into the car accident.
An UT police officer said that Farid was arrested during a raid in the wee hours of Thursday.
Media reports had earlier attributed his arrest from a friend’s flat in Delhi.
Farid has been brought here and put under sustained interrogation at Crime Branch by UT DIG Alok Kumar, SSP Eish Singhal and other senior police officers.
“With Farid’s arrest, we hope to nab Randhawa, who is a resident of Sector 77 near Sohana in Mohali, soon,” the police officer said.