Raj police barred from entering Gurgaon hotel

Cops reach Manesar to probe 2 audio clips

Jaipur/Chandigarh, July 17: A Rajasthan police team was on Friday evening stopped for some time by the Haryana police from entering a hotel in Gurgaon where some dissident Congress MLAs are said to be holed up, an official said.

A Special Operations Group (SOG) team went to Manesar in Gurgaon to question MLA Bhanwarlal Sharma, as part of its investigation into two audio clips which allegedly indicate a plot to bring down the Congress government in Haryana.

The Congress had also alleged that senior BJP leader and Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat also figured in the clips, which surfaced on social media. But the FIR registered by the Special Operations Group does not identify one Gajendra Singh as any minister.

Television channels showed a Rajasthan police vehicle being stopped outside the Manesar hotel for nearly an hour by policemen from the BJP-ruled state. The police vehicle was later seen entering the hotel compound and then being driven out after several minutes.

Additional director general (SOG) Ashok Rathore said the team was told at the reception that the

MLA was not there. The police then left the second hotel in Manesar where some of the MLAs led by rebel Congress leader Sachin Pilot are said to camping.

“A team was sent to

Manesar to ascertain the versions of those whose names have come up in audio clips as there have been statements that these audio clips are fake or morphed,” Mr Rathore had said earlier.