2 weeks after convict jumps parole, police groping in dark

SANJEEV COULD NOT BE TRACED AT THE ‘RENTED ROOM’ IN YAMUNANAGAR VILLAGE, HIS ADDRESS GIVEN IN PAROLE PLEA

KARNAL: Two weeks after Sanjeev Kumar, convicted of murder of eight people, including his fatherin-law and former Haryana MLA Relu Ram Punia, jumped parole granted by the Kurukshetra jail, the police have failed to get any clue about him and have been groping in the dark.

Sanjeev, who was serving life sentence in Kuruksehtra jail, had come out on a parole of 14 days on May 16, but did not return to the jail on May 31.

The jail authorities then filed a complaint with the Yamunanagar police, who registered a case and launched a manhunt for the convict on the run.

Sanjeev had applied for parole in Yamunanagar district court in May. In the plea, his counsel had given his address of a rented room at Changoli village of the district. He was released on parole on security bonds of Rs 2 lakh.

But he was not traced at the given address when the police reached there.

Sanjay Singh, superintendent of the Kurukshetra jail, said when Sanjeev did not come back on May 31, the jail authorities filed a police complaint.

Talking to HT, Bilaspur SHO Gurmel Singh said, “As of now we did not get any clue about him but investigation is on. Also both the guarantors are absconding and police was trying to contact them.”

He said that as per the documents submitted in the court, Sanjeev had taken a room on rent in the house of a youth named Ricky in Changoli village. “During the investigation, it was found that the Ricky was lodged in Jagadhri jail in a rape case when Sanjeev was also lodged there. Sanjeev had asked him to provide a room in his house as his mother faced difficulties when she came to meet him in the jail,” he said.