Divya Pahuja, 27, who was arrested along with her mother Soniya in 2016 by the Mumbai police in connection with the encounter of gangster Sandeep Gadoli, was allegedly killed in a hotel room in Gurugram on January 2. Story/Diwakar Sharma
The walls of the room were blood-stained, but the body was nowhere to be found. After scanning CCTV footage, the cops saw two men dragging Pahuja’s remains, wrapped in a piece of cloth, in a hotel corridor before keeping it in a BMW, which headed towards Punjab
After remaining imprisoned for seven years in the Gadoli encounter case, Pahuja was released on bail last year in June and since then she had been staying at Baldev Nagar in Gurugram
According to the police, she was killed by the man she had reportedly been dating, Abhijeet Singh, the owner of the hotel, City Point, in which she was killed
The police alleged that Singh, a resident of South Extension in New Delhi, spent Rs 10 lakh to dispose of her body with the help of two men seen in the CCTV footage. The Haryana police have registered an FIR and detained Singh
A forensics team is examining the blood stains and the DNA will be matched with that of Pahuja’s relatives. The cops are yet to disclose what murder weapon Pahuja’s killers used to eliminate her. The investigators are yet to get custody of her body, which was seen being dragged by Singh’s accomplices inside the corridor of the hotel before it was stuffed in a BMW, which is believed to be headed towards Punjab
The Station House Officer (SHO) of Sector 14 police station inspector Krishna Kant told mid-day, “Yes, this is true. We have registered an FIR under Sections 302 and 201 of the Indian Penal Code. Our investigations are underway”
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