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Final Up to date: March 18, 2023, 23:19 IST
Kotdwara (Kotdwar), India
Arya, who’s the son of a now-expelled BJP chief, together with the opposite two accused within the case are behind bars.
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Pulkit Arya, Saurabh Bhaskar, and Ankit Gupta have been charged with homicide, destruction of proof, and immoral trafficking, Assistant District Authorities Advocate Jitendra Rawat stated
Expenses have been framed in opposition to the three accused, together with the primary accused Pulkit Arya, in a court docket right here on Saturday within the Ankita Bhandari homicide case of Uttarakhand.
The three have been charged with homicide, destruction of proof, and immoral trafficking, Assistant District Authorities Advocate Jitendra Rawat stated.
Pulkit Arya, Saurabh Bhaskar, and Ankit Gupta have been produced within the court docket on Saturday amid heavy police deployment as Congress staff staged an illustration elevating slogans and demanding dying for them.
The matter will probably be heard subsequent on March 28 when the prosecution aspect will produce witnesses.
The District and Periods Court docket had earlier rejected the bail plea of the accused contemplating the gravity of the allegations, Rawat stated.
Round 100 witnesses have been included within the 500-page cost sheet filed by the police within the court docket primarily based on the deliberations by the Particular Investigation Group (SIT). Bhandari, 19, who labored as a receptionist at Vanantra Resort in Ganga Bhogpur space of Pauri district, was allegedly thrown into the Chilla canal by the resort’s proprietor Arya together with two of his workers, Bhaskar and Gupta, in September final 12 months.
Preliminary investigation had then revealed that Bhandari was killed for refusing to supply “particular companies” to a VIP visitor.
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