A MASSIVE protest broke out in Rishikesh on Friday whereas the accused within the 19-year-old receptionist’s homicide case was being taken to jail. Locals raised slogans and surrounded the car in search of justice.
Meanwhile, the son of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief, Pulkit Arya, who owns a resort in Yamkeshwar block of Pauri district was additionally arrested in reference to the case alongside together with his two workers, recognized as supervisor Saurabh Bhaskar, and assistant supervisor Ankit Gupta, mentioned the police.
#WATCH | Rishikesh, Uttarakhand: Locals gheraoed Police car that was carrying the accused in #AnkitaBhandari homicide case earlier at present. They additionally thrashed the accused.
Police tweeted that the three confessed to having pushed her right into a canal after a dispute and he or she drowned. pic.twitter.com/VToUUhYX4o
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September 23, 2022
The accused have been detained after they confessed to have killed the lacking lady and thrown her physique into the Cheela Canal, Pauri Additional Superintendent of Police Shekhar Chandra Suyal as reported by the information company PTI.
The ASP additionally talked about that they tried to mislead the police initially. However, the entire accused confessed to the crime after interrogation.
Meanwhile, a staff has been despatched to seek for the lady’s physique within the canal, he mentioned, including the case was cracked inside 24 hours of being transferred from the income police to common police.
The three accused have been despatched to 14-day judicial custody by a Kotdwar court docket, police mentioned.
Meanwhile, the police talked about that the accused have been booked beneath sections 302 and 201 of IPC. “Sections of murder and concealment of evidence (Section 302/201 IPC) have been increased against the accused arrested in the Ankita Bhandari missing case. SDRF team is searching the dead body,” the police knowledgeable through posting a video on the official Twitter deal with of Uttrakhand police.
अंकिता भण्डारी गुमशुदगी प्रकरण में गिरफ्तार अभियुक्तों के विरूद्ध हत्या एवं साक्ष्य छिपाने (धारा 302/201 IPC) की धाराएं बढ़ा दी गयी हैं। SDRF टीम शव तलाश कर रही है। विवेचना की प्रगति के संबंध में SSP पौड़ी गढ़वाल अवगत कराएंगे।@uttarakhandcops @ANINewsUP pic.twitter.com/0q9fsu9kHC
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September 23, 2022
A lacking grievance had been lodged at a income police outpost after the lady was not present in her room by her mother and father on Monday morning.
Pulkit Arya is the son of Vinod Arya, a BJP chief from Haridwar, and a former chairman of Uttarakhand Mati Kala Board. Vinod Arya has been granted a state minister’s rank however holds no put up within the authorities.