Surat Police bank on human intelligence to nab Narayan Sai

SURAT: Having miserably failed to nab the absconding rape accused Narayan Sai since over a month now, the city police are now solely dependent on the time-tested 'human intelligence' method to get to him.
Sai, the son of controversial spiritual leader Asaram, is evading police since October 6 when a 30-year-old woman lodged a complaint of rape against him in Jahangirpura police station.
Police have used all the modern surveillance techniques to get his whereabouts but some how they have been unable to nab him. Despite knowing that he used a chopper to escape on some occasions, the police were only left twiddling their thumbs. Sai has stopped using his cell phone also.
"We are largely dependent on human intelligence at this point of time. We are getting information from individuals who have spotted Sai," said Rakesh Asthana, city police commissioner.
The police teams have received more than 2,000 calls from different states giving clues about Sai's movements.
"One limitation of human intelligence is that the information reaches us very slowly. Sai is continuously changing his locations and escapes before we reach there," sources in the investigation team said.
"When we receive information, we send our man to verify it first. Once it is verified, we send a team to nab the accused. The traditional surveillance method is accurate but it is time consuming," they said.
Surat police had registered two complaints - one against tainted religious leader Asaram and the other against his son Sai of rape, sexual assault and illegal confinement as alleged by two sisters on October 6. The younger of the two sisters, who is 30 years old, filed the complaint against Sai, accusing him of repeated sexual assault between 2002 and 2005, when she was living at Surat ashram.
The rape survivor's 33-year-old elder sister had lodged a complaint of rape against Asaram. The compliant is being investigated by Ahmedabad police since the alleged crime was done in the Motera ashram.