Ankita Bhandari Murder Case: The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday (December 21) rejected the petition requesting the CBI to investigate the Ankita Bhandari murder case.
A single-judge bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar dismissed the plea saying that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) is already probing the matter and it should not be doubted. The High Court also said that no VIP is being defended in this case, as alleged in the petition.
What was the claim?
Ashutosh Negi, a resident of Pauri Garhwal, had filed a petition claiming that the police and the SIT were hiding important evidence in the case. It was said in the petition that the SIT has not yet made public the postmortem report of the victim. The Uttarakhand High Court has said this on this petition.
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What is the matter?
Ankita Bhandari (19) worked as a receptionist at Vanantara Resort near Rishikesh and was allegedly killed by its owner Pulkit Arya and two of his accomplices after she told a VIP visiting the resort ‘extra Had refused to come under their pressure to provide ‘services’. A lot of anger had arisen among the people regarding Ankita’s murder. Let us tell you that in the initial investigation, the police were facing allegations that they had destroyed the evidence.
What did the government say?
Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami has already said that the police and SIT are probing the matter properly. At the same time, this Congress says that pressure is being made on the police.
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