On Saturday there was another shocking case of a hapless woman’s mysterious death following her disappearance that took place in Uttarakhand. The body of the 19-year-old receptionist Ankita Bhandari, who went missing from the premises of a private resort in Rishikesh was recovered in the early hours of Saturday from the Chilla canal.
The resort named Vanantra Resort is owned by a BJP leader’s son named Pulkit Arya. Ankita worked as a receptionist in the resort.
Pulkit Arya, resort manager Saurabh Bhaskar, and assistant manager Ankit Gupta were arrested on Friday after they confessed to have killed the girl and thrown her body into Cheela canal, according to the police.
The search was launched out to fish out her body after the main accused Pulkit Arya told police that he had killed Ankita by pushing her into the barrage from a cliff on September 18 night, the day she had gone missing.
The girl was reported missing at a revenue police outpost by her parents, after they did not find her in her room on Monday morning, September 19.
The accused have informed police that Ankita was murdered after an argument with her as she was refusing to the demand of the resort owner for sexual favour for himself and his guests in the resort.