Delhi 5-star hotel brawl: UP cops clueless about Ashish Pandey's whereabouts

NEW DELHI: UP police has so far failed to get any leads from their human intelligence network about Ashish Pandey, the son of a former

BSP MP

, who has been evading arrest after he brandished his gun at a couple outside a five-star hotel in Delhi. The video of the incident had taken social media by storm.


Sources said police are likely to take help of artists to prepare images of him in disguise — without his beard or hair or wearing a turban — to use them to identify him. A non-bailable warrant was issued after police approached court on Wednesday. Police told the court that they identified the accused as Lucknow native Ashish Pandey with the help of CCTV footage of the incident.

“A team was dispatched to Ashish’s address and a raid was conducted, but he was not found. He is deliberately evading the process of law,” said an officer.

Pandey flaunted his licenced

Mauser

and threatened to shoot the couple at the porch of Hyatt Regency hotel early on Sunday. However, the incident came to the fore only on Tuesday night.

At least 12 police teams from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh are on Pandey's trail.

Police on Wednesday said they have questioned 12 staff members of Hyatt Regency to ascertain the sequence of events and identify the lapses on the hotel’s part. In all, more than 50 people, including Ashish’s father, Rakesh Pandey, and his uncle have been questioned for clues about his whereabouts.

Cops are also trying to contact the women who were with Ashish during the brawl and had returned to Dubai on Sunday evening. “The family has been asked to persuade Ashish to turn himself in and join the investigation,” said an officer.

The probe has virtually hit a dead-end after police lost Ashish’s electronic trail in Basti in UP, located near

Nepal

border. Cops suspect Ashish Pandey may have changed his looks to dodge policemen and informers.

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