A senior police official said that relatives of Baney Singh -- who the police claims is a prominent AAP leader in Agra -- identified Bharti and told them that the former law minister had stayed at their residence for two nights during the period in which he was evading arrest.
Meanwhile, a police team is looking for Baney and his associates identified as Nattha Singh, Kapil and Sudheer. All of them had allegedly harboured the legislator while he was on the run, said Joint Commissioner of Police (Southwest) Dependra Pathak.
Bharti was yesterday taken to Agra a day after Supreme Court denied interim bail to the AAP MLA and his police custody extended for three days.
There, Bharti was made to confront Lal Singh -- the person who had earlier registered a police complaint over criminal breach of trust against his distant relative Baney.
A senior official said that Lal Singh recognised Bharti instantly and claimed that he was the 'mantri' from Delhi with whom Baney had come to his house and borrowed his car, which they did not return.
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