Chandigarh: Former Haryana additional advocate general Sanjiv Bansal, who allegedly tried to bribe a High Court judge with Rs 15 lakh, today surrendered before the police here.

"Bansal has surrendered before the police" SHO of sector 11 police station, Ramesh Chander, under whose jurisdiction Bansal gave up, said.

He said Bansal was being interrogated.

Two days back, police had issued a lookout notices against Bansal and a Delhi businessman Ravinder Singh, as both of them had failed to turn up and join investigations.

Police said Bansal s mobile phone call details were being scrutinised to ascertain the persons with whom he was in touch before the alleged crime.

Police parties had been sent to Delhi and some other places to trace Bansal and the businessman.

Meanwhile, the Chandigarh police had assured the High Court Chief Justice T S Thakur that the case would be cracked by Thursday.

The munshi , who allegedly delivered the amount to the Punjab and Haryana High Court judge, was arrested under the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) a few days ago.

The former additional advocate general had earlier claimed that his clerk wrongly delivered the money at the residence of the judge instead of giving it to a realtor as advance for a property deal.
Source : PTI