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PRESS TRUST OF INDIA
NEW DELHI, MAY 6: In a major breakthrough in the Jessica Lal murder case, prime suspect Siddharth Vashisht alias Manu Sharma, son of former Union minister Vinod Sharma, today surrendered to police in Chandigarh and was brought here for interrogation. Manu is said to have told `I am innocent. Let the law take its course' in Chandigarh before being brought to the Capital.
Manu, who had been at large since the ramp model was shot dead at an illegal South Delhi Bar on April 30, gave himself up to a Delhi police team led by inspector Raman Lamba at a private tourist lodge. He was accompanied by his uncle vinod dada and two lawyers.
Manu, who was brought to Delhi in the night, was straight away taken to the South Delhi police headquarters at Hauz Khas for preliminary interrogation by a three member team led by Deputy Commissioner of Police (South) Sudhir Yadav.
"He was handed over to police by one of his relatives. He surrendered under tremendous police pressure following raids at several places. He would beproduced before a magistrate tomorrow with a request for a test identification parade," Yadav told media persons here.
Manu's arrest comes two days after two of his friends, Amardeep Singh alias Tony and Alok Khanna, senior Coca Cola executives, were arrested on charges of harbouring him and destroying evidence.
They were remanded to 14 days' police custody today by a city court which rejected their bail pleas.
Yadav expressed the hope that a fourth accomplice Vikas Yadav alias Vickey, son of Rajya Sabha MP D P Yadav who is eluding police dragnet, would be nabbed soon.
Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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