New Delhi: Spiritual leader Swami Pratibhanand, a suspect in the murder of BSP leader and realtor Deepak Bhardwaj in Delhi, is changing hideouts to avoid arrest, police on Monday said, adding that plots to kill the politician were also made in January and March 2013.
A Delhi Police officer said that Pratibhanand, 48, has changed his hideouts in at least seven cities of separate states since March 26, 2013 murder of Bhardwaj at his farmhouse in south Delhi's Rajokri.
Pratibhanand, a resident of Beed district in Maharashtra, is suspected to have travelled to locations in Nanded in Maharashtra, Mathura in Uttar Pradesh, Haridwar in Uttrakhand, Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Bangalore in Karnataka, Patna in Bihar, and Kolkata in West Bengal since the murder.
The Officer said two days ago he was seen at Bihar's Patna city, with changed physical appearances....
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