Fiancée of Indian who helped run Chinese club held

GREATER NOIDA: The fiancée of Ravi Natwarlal Thakkar — the aide of Chinese citizen Xue Fei who illegally stayed in the country for two years and ran a club for Chinese expats in Greater Noida — was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly giving him shelter despite knowing that he was evading arrest. Vaani Kondal (32) is a doctor in Delhi’s GB Pant Hospital, police said.
Thakkar and Kondal had met in China while studying for MBBS in 2012. However, Thakkar returned to India without completing his degree. The two got engaged on June 8.
“On Sunday night, we had managed to track down Thakkar through Kondal,” Anil Kumar, SHO, Beta-2 police station, said. Three more people were arrested along with him.
It was found that ever since Fei’s arrest, Thakkar had been hiding at his fiancée’s house in Delhi's Gautam Nagar area.
“Kondal had been trying to arrange lawyers to get anticipatory bail for Thakkar. She is from Himachal Pradesh, and is now working as a doctor at GB Pant Hospital in Delhi. An FIR has been registered against her under IPC section 212 (harbouring an offender),” Kumar said.
The case, said police, has now been transferred to STF.
“Thakkar and his fiancée have been produced before the court, which sent them to judicial custody. The STF is trying to get his custody for interrogation,” a senior officer of Noida STF unit told TOI.