Ten days have passed after hardened gangster Amit Malik alias Bhura escaped from police custody while being taken to court for a hearing in Baghpat, UP, on December 15, but Uttarakhand police are groping in the dark to get clues to his whereabouts.
Meanwhile, the Uttarakhand Government on Wednesday increased the bounty amount from `1 lakh to `5 lakh for information leading to Bhura's arrest. The Uttar Pradesh Government had already announced a bounty of `5 lakh for clues.
Uttarakhand DGP BS Sidhu who returned to Dehradun on Tuesday evening after holding meeting with Delhi Special Commissioner of Police (special branch) SN Srivastava in the national Capital, and Uttar Pradesh DGP Al Banerjee, UP ADGP (law and order) Mukul Goel, in lucknow, said that all the developments related to the investigation by the teams were discussed in detail. A fresh strategy to nab the criminal was also discussed. He further said that teams are working on several angles. They have got some leads too.
About 25 teams, including Special Operation Group, Special Task Force and Cyber Cell, are working on special information as well as direction being given by senior officers to apprehend the accused and recover the weapons looted from the police, he added.