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By Usman Chaudhary: In a revelation, sources revealed that other female employees at Pulkit Arya's resort in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh were uncomfortable while working on the premises too. Naming Pulkit Arya, who is the prime accused in Ankita Bhandari's murder case, the former employee of the resort owned by Arya said that the girls were ill-treated and they evaded compliance to run a business there. The allegations pertain to the 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari, who worked as a receptionist at Arya's resort, and was allegedly murdered by Arya, resort manager Saurabh Bhaskar, and another accused named Ankit, alias Pulkit Gupta. The three accused, after being arrested, confessed to the authorities that they had pushed Ankita into a nearby canal after a dispute. ALSO READ | Shreds of evidence and reports suggest that Ankita was asked to provide 'special services to clients at the resort by Pulkit Arya and she had repeatedly refused to carry out such activities. During a press conference, a former employee of Pulkit Arya's resort revealed a series of unknown details about the resort. • The former employee mentioned that she worked at the resort's 'front desk' between May and June 2022. • She said that the girl was ill-treated on the premises. "Pulkit Arya hurled abuse at me, really bad abusive words at me," she said. • She said that Ankit Gupta, another accused in the murder case, brought 'girls' to the resort and asked staff members not to enter their details of check-in and chec...

Charges were framed against the three accused, including the main accused Pulkit Arya, in a court here on Saturday in the Ankita Bhandari murder case of Uttarakhand. The three have been charged with murder, destruction of evidence, and immoral trafficking, Assistant District Government Advocate Jitendra Rawat said. Pulkit Arya, Saurabh Bhaskar, and Ankit Gupta were produced in the court on Saturday amid heavy police deployment as Congress workers staged a demonstration raising slogans and demanding death for them. The matter will be heard next on March 28 when the prosecution side will produce witnesses. The District and Sessions Court had earlier rejected the bail plea of the accused considering the gravity of the allegations, Rawat said. Around 100 witnesses have been included in the 500-page charge sheet filed by the police in the court based on the deliberations by the Special Investigation Team (SIT). Bhandari, 19, who worked as a receptionist at Vanantra Resort in Ganga Bhogpur area of ​​Pauri district, was allegedly thrown into the Chilla canal by the resort’s owner Arya along with two of his employees, Bhaskar and Gupta, in September last year. Preliminary investigation had then revealed that Bhandari was killed for refusing to provide “special services" to a VIP guest. Read all the (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed -

It is alleged that Pulkit Arya and his two associates killed her as she refused to enter into prostitution. Some former staffers of the resort while speaking to investigation officials told them that they had witnessed illegal activities being operated such as prostitution and drug abuse inside the resort located in the Ganga-Bhogpur area of Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. "The father immediately after arriving Rishikesh went to Police Station Kotwali Rishikesh from where he was sent to Police Station Laxman Jhula at night. After enquiring about his missing daughter at the Police Station Laxman Jhula the police officials told him that his complaint would be registered by the Patwari concerned as the place from where the daughter went missing falls within the Revenue Police jurisdiction," read the intervention application. The patwari categorically refused to hear grievances and doubts of the victim's father and misbehaved with him. Later the suspects were arrested in the matter by the Laxman Jhula police station after the public outrage and the local media's attention as the District Magistrate, Pauri who vide his Letter dated 21.09.2022, in the late evening, ordered the transfer of investigation from Revenue Police to Regular Police, the application added as reported by ANI. "That the incapability of Revenue Authorities in dealing with the heinous crime has been categorically set out from time to time by this Court as well as the Hon'ble High Court. Also, the recen...

Following Ankita had joined Pulkit’s resort in Uttarakhand’s Laxman Jhula area as a receptionist late last month. Days after she went missing, the police recovered Ankita’s body from a canal on September 24, a day after they arrested Pulkit and two others charging that he had confessed to pushing her into the canal after an altercation. Many in the state BJP believe that Vinod, who hails from Haridwar, was inducted into the party fold mainly for his business interests in swadeshi ayurveda. Later, the BJP dispensation appointed Vinod as the chairman of the Uttarakhand Mati Board with a state minister’s rank. “He (Vinod) was never a mass leader or brought votes to the party. Vinod Arya is well known in the area for running the Swadeshi Ayurveda firm and that is why many in the party believed that it would be good to have someone with the swadeshi tag. Once in the party, he started staking claims for different posts. In meetings, he used to say that he is a senior leader and should be given suitable recognition. With that, he was given the rank of a minister of state,” said a state BJP leader. Must Read | Vinod later used his political influence to further expand his ayurveda business. The Pulkit-owned Vanantra Resort in Laxman Jhula area is cited as an example in this regard. Vinod’s elder son Ankit also joined the BJP and was later made the state OBC Commission vice president. It is believed in state political circles that since Vinod was just a “symbolic face” in the saffr...

The prime accused in the murder of the 19-year-old receptionist, whose body was found in the Chilla canal in Rishikesh, The victim went missing on Sunday, 18 September, and her body was found five days after the incident, and after more than 24 hours of searching the canal on Saturday, 24 September. Pulkit Arya and two of his resort staff, Saurabh Bhaskar (35) and Ankit Gupta (19), were arrested on 23 September. Arya, the main accused, is the owner of the Vanantra Resort. His father is the former chairman of Uttarakhand Mati Kala Board and the BJP Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha's national executive. During the interrogation, the accused told the police, after getting arrested, that there was a verbal argument between Pulkit Arya and the woman. Following which, Pulkit told the other two accused that “the girl is upset, let us take her to Rishikesh.” Once the accused and the victim reached the Chilla canal, the argument escalated. Pulkit blamed the woman for revealing the talks between the two of them to her colleagues following which she then accused him of asking her to develop " The victim then threatened to tell everyone about what is happening in the resort and threw the prime accused’s phone in the canal. The three men, in an inebriated condition, assaulted the woman and pushed her in the canal, according to the police. The next morning, Arya and Gupta left for Haridwar, where Arya bought a new mobile and a dummy sim of the same number. He then called another reso...

Following Ankita had joined Pulkit’s resort in Uttarakhand’s Laxman Jhula area as a receptionist late last month. Days after she went missing, the police recovered Ankita’s body from a canal on September 24, a day after they arrested Pulkit and two others charging that he had confessed to pushing her into the canal after an altercation. Many in the state BJP believe that Vinod, who hails from Haridwar, was inducted into the party fold mainly for his business interests in swadeshi ayurveda. Later, the BJP dispensation appointed Vinod as the chairman of the Uttarakhand Mati Board with a state minister’s rank. “He (Vinod) was never a mass leader or brought votes to the party. Vinod Arya is well known in the area for running the Swadeshi Ayurveda firm and that is why many in the party believed that it would be good to have someone with the swadeshi tag. Once in the party, he started staking claims for different posts. In meetings, he used to say that he is a senior leader and should be given suitable recognition. With that, he was given the rank of a minister of state,” said a state BJP leader. Must Read | Vinod later used his political influence to further expand his ayurveda business. The Pulkit-owned Vanantra Resort in Laxman Jhula area is cited as an example in this regard. Vinod’s elder son Ankit also joined the BJP and was later made the state OBC Commission vice president. It is believed in state political circles that since Vinod was just a “symbolic face” in the saffr...

It is alleged that Pulkit Arya and his two associates killed her as she refused to enter into prostitution. Some former staffers of the resort while speaking to investigation officials told them that they had witnessed illegal activities being operated such as prostitution and drug abuse inside the resort located in the Ganga-Bhogpur area of Pauri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. "The father immediately after arriving Rishikesh went to Police Station Kotwali Rishikesh from where he was sent to Police Station Laxman Jhula at night. After enquiring about his missing daughter at the Police Station Laxman Jhula the police officials told him that his complaint would be registered by the Patwari concerned as the place from where the daughter went missing falls within the Revenue Police jurisdiction," read the intervention application. The patwari categorically refused to hear grievances and doubts of the victim's father and misbehaved with him. Later the suspects were arrested in the matter by the Laxman Jhula police station after the public outrage and the local media's attention as the District Magistrate, Pauri who vide his Letter dated 21.09.2022, in the late evening, ordered the transfer of investigation from Revenue Police to Regular Police, the application added as reported by ANI. "That the incapability of Revenue Authorities in dealing with the heinous crime has been categorically set out from time to time by this Court as well as the Hon'ble High Court. Also, the recen...

Charges were framed against the three accused, including the main accused Pulkit Arya, in a court here on Saturday in the Ankita Bhandari murder case of Uttarakhand. The three have been charged with murder, destruction of evidence, and immoral trafficking, Assistant District Government Advocate Jitendra Rawat said. Pulkit Arya, Saurabh Bhaskar, and Ankit Gupta were produced in the court on Saturday amid heavy police deployment as Congress workers staged a demonstration raising slogans and demanding death for them. The matter will be heard next on March 28 when the prosecution side will produce witnesses. The District and Sessions Court had earlier rejected the bail plea of the accused considering the gravity of the allegations, Rawat said. Around 100 witnesses have been included in the 500-page charge sheet filed by the police in the court based on the deliberations by the Special Investigation Team (SIT). Bhandari, 19, who worked as a receptionist at Vanantra Resort in Ganga Bhogpur area of ​​Pauri district, was allegedly thrown into the Chilla canal by the resort’s owner Arya along with two of his employees, Bhaskar and Gupta, in September last year. Preliminary investigation had then revealed that Bhandari was killed for refusing to provide “special services" to a VIP guest. Read all the (This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed -

The prime accused in the murder of the 19-year-old receptionist, whose body was found in the Chilla canal in Rishikesh, The victim went missing on Sunday, 18 September, and her body was found five days after the incident, and after more than 24 hours of searching the canal on Saturday, 24 September. Pulkit Arya and two of his resort staff, Saurabh Bhaskar (35) and Ankit Gupta (19), were arrested on 23 September. Arya, the main accused, is the owner of the Vanantra Resort. His father is the former chairman of Uttarakhand Mati Kala Board and the BJP Other Backward Classes (OBC) Morcha's national executive. During the interrogation, the accused told the police, after getting arrested, that there was a verbal argument between Pulkit Arya and the woman. Following which, Pulkit told the other two accused that “the girl is upset, let us take her to Rishikesh.” Once the accused and the victim reached the Chilla canal, the argument escalated. Pulkit blamed the woman for revealing the talks between the two of them to her colleagues following which she then accused him of asking her to develop " The victim then threatened to tell everyone about what is happening in the resort and threw the prime accused’s phone in the canal. The three men, in an inebriated condition, assaulted the woman and pushed her in the canal, according to the police. The next morning, Arya and Gupta left for Haridwar, where Arya bought a new mobile and a dummy sim of the same number. He then called another reso...

By Usman Chaudhary: In a revelation, sources revealed that other female employees at Pulkit Arya's resort in Uttarakhand's Rishikesh were uncomfortable while working on the premises too. Naming Pulkit Arya, who is the prime accused in Ankita Bhandari's murder case, the former employee of the resort owned by Arya said that the girls were ill-treated and they evaded compliance to run a business there. The allegations pertain to the 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari, who worked as a receptionist at Arya's resort, and was allegedly murdered by Arya, resort manager Saurabh Bhaskar, and another accused named Ankit, alias Pulkit Gupta. The three accused, after being arrested, confessed to the authorities that they had pushed Ankita into a nearby canal after a dispute. ALSO READ | Shreds of evidence and reports suggest that Ankita was asked to provide 'special services to clients at the resort by Pulkit Arya and she had repeatedly refused to carry out such activities. During a press conference, a former employee of Pulkit Arya's resort revealed a series of unknown details about the resort. • The former employee mentioned that she worked at the resort's 'front desk' between May and June 2022. • She said that the girl was ill-treated on the premises. "Pulkit Arya hurled abuse at me, really bad abusive words at me," she said. • She said that Ankit Gupta, another accused in the murder case, brought 'girls' to the resort and asked staff members not to enter their details of check-in and chec...