India, Sept. 4 -- Swatantra Bharadwaj, accused of assaulting the father of student activist Nishu Azad during the Jantar Mantar protest, allegedly fled from Bulandshahr hours after Delhi Police assured the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) that he would be arrested within 72 hours, police sources said on Friday.

Bharadwaj allegedly left Naithla village on a Bullet motorcycle and headed towards Khurja, wearing a helmet to conceal his identity, the sources said.

Several police teams in plain clothes were deployed to trace him. During the search, police also questioned local journalists as they tried to establish Bharadwaj's whereabouts.

Efforts are underway to locate and apprehend him, the sources said.

Bharadwaj, who describes himself as a "...