The Delhi Police are on the lookout for businessman Navneet Kalra who owns Khan Chacha and Town Hall restaurants.
A lookout circular notice has been issued for Kalra, after 524 oxygen concentrators were recovered from his restaurants in the national capital. Kalra had imported the oxygen concentrators through a private company from China.
Fearing imminent arrest, Kalra has also filed an anticipatory bail plea at the Saket court in this hoarding case which can be viewed as war profiteering as India faces an uphill struggle to counter the Wuhan virus.
A large number of oxygen concentrators were recovered through raids by the Delhi Police and 419 of the 524 concentrators were seized from a restaurant-cum-bar in the posh Lodhi Colony area whereas 96 and nine of them were recovered from Khan Chacha and Town Hall respectively.
After the raid, Kalra may have fled Delhi along with his family members and his mobile phone has been switched off.
The police have also carried out raids at neighbouring states and also his Chattarpur farmhouse.
“10 to 12 teams of Delhi Police had arrived (at farmhouse), Sahab (Navneet Kalra) had left the farmhouse late night along with his family in his car, without the driver. Delhi Police went inside and searched the farmhouse as a part of the raid,” one of the guards from the farmhouse told India Today.
The police also recovered an audio clip in which Kalra could be heard discussing the allotment of oxygen concentrators to specific ‘friends’ in the Khan Market area.
There is a massive demand for oxygen concentrators due to Covid and Kalra was allegedly was selling them for exuberant amounts.
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