Ankita Bhandari murder case: Uttarakhand CM assures no attempt to erase evidence, top updates

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• 25 Sep 2022, 06:58 PM

  Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami chairs a high-level meeting regarding law and order and security in the state. Those in attendance at Dehradun Secretariat included the Chief Secretary and DGP of the state and top police officials. 

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 06:56 PM

  Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has assured there’s no attempt to erase evidence, adding that the case will be expedited in a fast track court and the culprits won’t be spared. 

  “SIT is probing the case from very angle, and evidence related to case has been safeguarded. I assure that there's no attempt to erase the evidence. We'll try to expedite the case in a fast-track court. We won't spare culprits,” Uttarakhand CM PS Dhami said.

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 06:51 PM

  Last rites of murdered Uttarakhand resort receptionist Ankita Bhandari performed at NIT ghat in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal district of Uttarakhand. 

   

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 05:53 PM

  Mortals remains of Ankita Bhandari are now being taken to NIT ghat from mortuary in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal district for the teen's last rites.

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 05:45 PM

  Uttarakhand | Mortals remains of Ankita Bhandari being taken to NIT ghat from mortuary in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal for the last rites. https://t.co/MgfPjMU9dA pic.twitter.com/RWbaH4GqOd

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 25, 2022

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 05:30 PM

  Massive protest erupts outside the mortuary where Ankita Bhandari's father arrived to take her body for last rites in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal district. Pics emerge:

   

  Uttarakhand: Massive protest erupts outside mortuary in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal dist, where Ankita Bhandari's father arrived to take her body for last rites
  
  She was allegedly murdered in Rishikesh by now expelled BJP leader Vinod Arya's son Pulkit Arya who was arrested yesterday pic.twitter.com/kqyopLrI6l

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 25, 2022

   

   

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 04:40 PM

  Hang till Death. Cycle rally in Rishikesh for #ankitabhandari. Uttarakhand demands death punishment for the culprits.#JusticeForAnkitaBhandari pic.twitter.com/NhUOX99akH

  — Deeksha Negi (@NegiDeekshaa) September 25, 2022

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 03:37 PM

  Ankita Bhandari murder case | SIT has been formed and they are investigating it. Every angle will be examined. This type of incident can't be accepted in the state. We've taken a resolution to punish the culprits: Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami pic.twitter.com/HxP1lB38Sa

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 25, 2022

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 03:16 PM

  AAP's women's wing protest in Delhi over Ankita murder case

   

  #JusticeForAnkita | AAP की महिला शक्ति का BJP मुख्यालय का घेराव | LIVE https://t.co/5HBSrRpIEt

  — AAP (@AamAadmiParty) September 25, 2022

   

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 02:10 PM

  I will cremate my daughter only after I get the final postmortem report. CM has told me that SIT constituted, the case will be tried in a fast-track court: Ankita Bhandari's father

   

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 01:14 PM

  Locals show solidarity, keep markets closed ahead of funeral

  Amid the ongoing turbulence across the state over the Ankita Bhandari murder case, the local market was shut on Sunday as the locals showed solidarity. The development came ahead of Ankita's funeral in Garhwal, Srinagar. Traders of Srinagar kept their business establishments wholly closed. They also demanded capital punishment for the culprits.

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 01:07 PM

  Former BJP leader Vinod Arya has refuted all allegations against his son Pulkit Arya, the prime accused in Ankita murder case. He described his son as a ‘seedha saada balak’ (a simple boy). 

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 01:00 PM

  The traffic has been diverted to avoid any inconvenience to commuters. District authorities and police in talks over conducting of last rites of Ankita Bhandari: PL Tamta, CO, Srinagar Police

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 12:53 PM

  Srinagar, Uttarakhand | A huge crowd of protestors demand justice, blocking the Badrinath-Rishikesh highway in front of the mortuary near the base hospital where #AnkitaBhandari's body was taken to; administration attempts to clear the jam. pic.twitter.com/0hSgmR6qlA

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 25, 2022

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 12:49 PM

  Statement of every resort employee taken, WhatsApp chats being probed too: Police

   

  “We have called every employee in the resort to the police station; will take everyone’s statements. We’re running a full background analysis on the resort,” DIG PR Devi, SIT In-charge of the Uttarakhand murder case said. Ankita’s WhatsApp chats that have surfaced are also being probed.

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 12:48 PM

  Congress slams BJP, says PM Modi should apologise

  The Congress on Saturday attacked the BJP after the son of one of its leaders was arrested in the murder case of a woman receptionist at a resort in Uttarakhand, and demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi apologise to the nation. The opposition party termed as “selective action” the BJP expelling Vinod Arya and his son from the party and said it should remove all its lawmakers who are facing charges of crimes against women. Arya’s other son Pulkit Arya was arrested in the murder case of a 19-year-old woman.

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 12:47 PM

  Resort razed to destroy evidence, alleges Ankita's family

  The family members of the 19-year-old receptionist, whose murder has snowballed into a controversy in Uttarakhand, have questioned the government’s action in the case and refused to cremate her body. According to reports, the woman’s relatives blocked a highway in protest. The family questioned the government’s move to demolish the resort and alleged that it was done to destroy the evidence in the case.

  
• 25 Sep 2022, 12:46 PM

  Uttarakhand | Markets in Srinagar closed today demanding justice for Ankita Bhandari
  
  Her last rites are expected to be conducted today.
  
  The 19-yr-old woman was allegedly murdered by expelled BJP leader Vinod Arya's son Pulkit Arya who was arrested yesterday. pic.twitter.com/YgkKL4Ojsf

  — ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) September 25, 2022