INDIA. Uttarakhand: Ankita Bhandari, a 19-year-old receptionist who was killed in Uttarakhand reportedly by her employer, drowned and suffocated to loss of life, in keeping with a preliminary autopsy report launched on Saturday.

The report additionally provides that Ankita’s physique had damage marks on it earlier than she handed away, indicating that she had doubtless been struck with a blunt object.

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Ankita’s physique was transported to the Base hospital in Srinagar following the conclusion of the autopsy at AIIMS Rishikesh. According to officers, the household will obtain her mortal stays and remaining rites had been to be carried out at this time.

Five days after going lacking, Ankita’s physique was discovered within the Chilla canal close to Rishikesh on September 24. The 19-year-old lady, who was employed as a receptionist at a resort in Uttarakhand, has sparked outrage throughout the nation.

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Pulkit Arya, the proprietor of the Vanantra resort and the principle suspect within the case, was detained by the state police on Friday. He is Vinod Arya’s son, a former BJP minister.

After confessing to pushing the girl right into a canal following an incident, Pulkit, the resort supervisor Saurabh Bhaskar, and assistant supervisor Ankit Gupta had been all charged with homicide. He was given a 14-day judicial detention order on Friday by a decide.

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The household refused to hold out the final rites.

Ankita’s father and brother declined to conduct her remaining rituals till they obtained the official postmortem report.

“We will not cremate my daughter’s lifeless body till the Special Investigative Team do not give their report as well as the forensic report of the autopsy,” Ankita Bhandari’s father Virendra Singh Bhandari said on Sunday.

The report they had been offered is minimal and lacks all of the forensic specifics, in keeping with Singh. “We intend to keep the body so we can perform another autopsy. That is if we believe that the initial autopsy was falsified or altered,” Singh mentioned.

They additionally spoke out in opposition to the resort’s demolition undertaking, the place she was a receptionist. Ajay speculated that there could be an try and obliterate proof.

Murdered for denying ‘special favours’ to company?

Ashok Kumar, the DGP for Uttarakhand, claimed on Saturday that the resort’s proprietor was pressuring Ankita Bhandari to supply “special services” to the guests. The lady’s WhatsApp change with a pal revealed the identical data.

Locals are demonstrating exterior the resort and calling for the perpetrators to be put to loss of life on account of the homicide’s widespread indignation.

The lady labored as a receptionist on the Vanantra resort, which the authorities started tearing down on Friday below the pretext that it was constructed “illegally.” After Arya’s arrest, CM Dhami ordered the destruction.

The creation of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to look into the homicide case has been mandated by the chief minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami. Following the arrest of Vinod Arya’s son within the matter, the BJP additionally acted and dismissed Vinod Arya from the organisation.

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