After failing to nab Honeypreet Insaan, adopted daughter of jailed dera sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim in the past one month, Haryana Police conducted raids in the national capital on Tuesday, on a day her anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Delhi High Court.
The State police, which has remained clueless about Honeypreet's whereabouts after Ram Rahim's convition on August 25, reached the national capital after an input that she is in Delhi.
A court in Panchkula, adjoining Chandigarh, has also issued arrest warrants against Honeypreet, and close aides of dera chief, Aditya Insan and Pawan Insan.
Earlier, search operation was carried out in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and even, Nepal to nab Honeypreet, who had been booked in Haryana for allegedly inciting violence following the conviction of Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh on August 25.
Haryana Police had also issued a lookout notice for Honeypreet and teams were formed to arrest her.
Panchkula Police Commissioner, AS Chawla while talking to the mediapersons said that the raids in Delhi were conducted to track down Honeypreet, Aditya and Pawan Insan, who are absonding.
Th police has arrest warrant against the trio. If the three accused are not arrested or surrender till October end, they will be declared proclaimed offenders.
On Honeypreet's approaching Delhi HC apprehending threat to her life in Haryana, Chawla said that an accused has a right to approach the court but we were not told that she was under any threat.
"One team headed by ACP is present in Delhi to defend the case in HC if a need arises," he added.
Honeypreet, whose real name is Priyanka Taneja, has been absconding since August 25 evening. She tops the list of 43 persons 'wanted' by the Haryana Police in connection with incidents of violence that followed Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh's conviction in a rape case last month.
She had accompanied the disgraced godman from Sirsa till the CBI special court in Panchkula where he was convicted on two counts of rape. later, she even accompanied Ram Rahim in a helicopter from Panchkula to Rohtak after he was convicted in the rape cases and was being shifted to the prison near Rohtak.
Several teams have been sent to different locations to nab Honeypreet while the Haryana police also remained in touch with its counterparts in other states for information about her whereabouts.
The State Police had earlier also sent a team to lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh bordering Nepal in search of Honeypreet. Police had earlier believed that she was close to the Nepal border.
The 50-year-old Dera chief, Ram Rahim who is lodged in the Sunaria Jail in Rohtak, had been sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment by the CBI court for the 2002 rapes of two of his disciples.