Updated On: 14 January, 2024 06:45 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Family identified her by her tattoo; the ex-model was killed on January 1 by lover

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The body of former model Divya Pahuja, who was shot to death by her boyfriend Abhijeet Singh at his hotel in Gurugram on the evening of January 2, has been recovered from Bhakhra canal in Fatehabad’s Tohana city on Saturday. Her body had been disposed of with the help of Singh’s accomplices. The body was highly decomposed, and could not be easily identified. After fishing out the body, Haryana police called in Pahuja’s relatives who identified the body through the tattoo on her back.
Pahuja was imprisoned for seven years in a Mumbai jail in connection with the fake encounter of dreaded gangster Sandeep Gadoli, who was gunned down by Haryana police in February 2016. After getting bail last year, Pahuja befriended Singh, whom she was reportedly sextorting, said the Haryana police. Though the prime suspect Abhijeet and two hotel staffers were immediately placed under arrest on January 3, it was a Herculean task for Gurugram crime branch to find Pahuja’s body which was taken away in Singh’s BMW by his friends— Balraj Gill and Ravi Banga.