Actress Akanksha Dubey's death: Singer Samar Singh arrested from Ghaziabad

The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested singer Samar Singh an accused in the death of popular Bhojpuri actress Akanksha Dubey from here officials said on FridayA lookout notice had been issued against Singh and another man after Dubey was found dead in a hotel room in Sarnath around a fortnight agoSingh was hiding in a housing society in the Nandgram area of Ghaziabad the western Uttar Pradesh district bordering DelhiHe was held late on Thursday night in a joint operation by the local police and their visiting counterparts from Varanasi a senior officer saidA team from the Sarnath police station of the Varanasi Commissionerate had come to Ghaziabad late Thursday night They sought the help of Ghaziabad police in nabbing Samar Singh from the Charms Castle housing society Deputy Commissioner of Police Ghaziabad City Nipun Agarwal saidThe accused is being presented in a Ghaziabad court for transit remand by the Varanasi police team the DCP said on Friday morningAkanksha Dubey a popular Bhojpuri actress was found dead inside a hotel room in Varanasi on March 26 The 25yearold actress was found hanging from the fan by a piece of cloth Dubey a resident of Bhadohi district had gone to Varanasi to film a movie and was staying in the hotelAlso Read Darshan death case Handwriting analysis confirms deceased wrote suicide noteLawyer Shashak Shekhar Tripathi who has taken up the case for the actress mother Madhu Dubey has raised a question mark on the postmortem report and said that he was seeking the advice of medical experts and based on it preparing questions for the policeTripathi had on Wednesday demanded a probe by the CBI or CBCID into the matter In a letter to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath he alleged that the 25yearold actress death was not by suicide rather she was killed by some people in the hotel roomHe also alleged that Akanshas body was forcibly cremated despite her mothers insistence that the cremation should happen only after the postmortem report arrivesMany known people in the Bhojpuri industry were exploiting Dubey and were not paying her for her work the lawyer had allegedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever