Giving in to the public pressure, police re-arrested Vikas Barala, the son of Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, five days after he got bail in the stalking case.

Earlier, a large number of policemen stood outside the Sector 26 police station in Chandigarh where Vikas and his friend Ashish turned up for questioning. Vikas joined the investigation five days after he allegedly stalked Varnika Kundu, the daughter of senior Haryana bureaucrat, in the night.

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The 23-year-old VIP brat, Vikas, turned up at the police station nearly three hours after the scheduled time (11am). Vikas and Ashish were out on bail after being arrested by a police patrol team on Saturday following their high-speed chase that is “recorded on six CCTV cameras”. All charges pressed against them earlier were bailable.

On Wednesday morning, Subhash Barala addressed the media, saying that his son will cooperate fully with the police. A day before, he had said Varnika was like his daughter.

Varnika, a DJ, accused Vikas and Ashish of tailgating her, blocking her way, banging on her car window and trying to force her car door open.

Meanwhile, refusal to giving blood and urine samples for examination by the accused after their arrest on Saturday has added fuel to the controversy.

A scanned copy of the medical report is making rounds on the social media wherein the doctor has written that Vikas and Ashish refused to give blood and urine samples for examination. This means that there is no evidence now that the accused were drunk when they allegedly chased the victim.

Chandigarh's Director General of Police (DGP) Tejinder S Luthra told the media on Wednesday that the accused had refused to give their blood and urine samples to the doctor conducting their medical examination on Saturday.

"The doctor on duty wanted to take the blood and urine samples, but the accused being law graduates knew the law too well. Therefore, they refused to give their samples. However, such refusal can be held against them in the investigation and also during the trial," Luthra said.

“I must assure you that everything under the sun will be done to ensure justice,” the DGP, who came before the media for the first time five days after the incident that rocked the country, added.

(With agency inputs)