Rajasthan police has no clue on Manoj Prabhakar

Rajasthan Police on Tuesday expressed its ignorance about the whereabouts of former cricket all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar and denied having received any request from its counterpart in Uttaranchal or Delhi to nab him.

"We have recieved no formal request from the Uttaranchal Police. The state police is having no information of Prabhakar being in Jaipur," Additional Director General of Rajasthan Police NN Meena told PTI.

Ever since a non-bailable arrest warrant against Prabhakar was issued by a court in Haldwani in Uttaranchal in connection with an alleged fraud in a chit fund company, the cricketer, who also figured in the match-fixing scandal, has been untraceable, according to police.

Media reports quoting his family members said Prabhakar was in Jaipur on a business tour. He had visited Jaipur a few times recently in connection with his business.

Uttaranchal Police had said on Monday that it would take steps to declare Prabhakar as a proclaimed offender if he does not surrender or is not arrested by Delhi Police pursuant to a non-bailable warrant issued against him.

"We are still waiting for a formal reply from Delhi Police regarding the non-bailable warrant against Manoj Prabhakar. In case he is not arrested, then we would declare him a proclaimed offender under Section 82 of the CrPC," Uttaranchal Director General of Police Ashok Kant Sharan had said.

Sharan also indicated that the property of Prabhakar, who purportedly is a managing director of a defunct finance company in Haldwani in the state, would be attached if he failed to surrender before the court, which has also ordered to testify the signatures of Prabhakar in the scam.