00:00If the accused in the Ankita Bhandhari case are already behind bars, why is Uttarakhand on the streets now?
00:08The main reason is the surfacing of a leaked audio, allegedly involving two BJP leaders,
00:15which has fueled speculations about the involvement of a VIP who is accused of pressuring Ankita for sexual favors.
00:21To those who are coming across the case for the first time, Ankita Bhandhari was a 19-year-old receptionist
00:36at the Vanantra Resort in the Paudu district of Uttarakhand, who went missing in September 2022.
00:41Her body was later recovered from a canal. Police investigations concluded that Ankita was murdered by resort's owner,
00:46Pulket Arya, who is the son of former BJP Minister Vinod Arya, along with two employees after she resisted pressure
00:51to provide what investigators described as special services to guests.
00:55But the fresh development in the three-year-old case emerged after Utmeela Sanavar,
01:03who claims to be the wife of former BJP MLA Suresh Rathod, cited a leaked audio alleging that BJP leader Dushyant Kumar Gautam,
01:10also known as Gattu, was the VIP guest who wanted sexual favors from Ankita.
01:14Gautam has denied the allegations.
01:20FYI, the primary accused in the case, Pulket Arya and his aides remain in jail.
01:24Still, the leaked audio has refueled the speculations of an influential guest's involvement in the murder of Ankita Bhandhari.
01:30But Haridwar SP Shekhar Soyal denied allegations of VIP involvement, stating that no evidence emerged during the investigation to support such claims.
01:41Meanwhile, several cities in Uttarakhand and even Delhi's Jantar Mantar saw huge protests demanding the arrest of the VIP.
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