Manu: I'm not running, I'm crushing cane in Patiala

N C Bipindra / TNN / Mar 2, 2006, 02:34 IST

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Manu Sharma, the man the entire country is gunning for, says he is not in hiding and that he is "very much in India."

Manu: I'm not running, I'm crushing cane in Patiala

CHANDIGARH: Manu Sharma, the man the entire country is gunning for, says he is not in hiding and that he is "very much in India." If he is to be believed, it is business as usual for him and he is "busy in Patiala as it is the peak sugarcane crushing season."
Ending days of silence, Manu, against whom the entire city seems to have risen in angry revolt - exchanging agonised SMSes on boycotting restaurants, movie halls and a night club owned by him - sent a letter out on Wednesday and said reports about his leaving the country were false.
The letter, signed by Manu as Sidhartha Vashistha - his official name - and very tellingly hand-delivered to the TOI office by former UT Congress general secretary Sunil Parti, added, "The news item, which has appeared in newspapers that I have gone abroad, is totally incorrect."
Parti claimed that Manu, a "family friend", was in Chandigarh as on Wednesday and it was at his bidding that the letter was dispatched.

He was quick to add that Manu had left for Patiala to get back to sugar crushing after ensuring that the letter had reached its destination. Parti refused to disclose where in Patiala the sugar mill lay or where Haryana minister Venod Sharma had vanished.
On contacting a phone number that Manu was apparently using, someone claiming to be his employee, said the former had ever since the contentious verdict been living in Patiala.
Asked for Manu's reaction to the public outcry on his acquittal and the court looking at re-opening the case, the associate, who called himself Amit Moudgil, said his employer had suffered a lot due to the case.

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