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Illegal structure razed or evidence wiped out?
Updated On: 26 September, 2022 09:19 AM IST | Dehradun | Agencies
Draft autopsy shows drowning as cause of death of Ankita Bhandari, who worked at a now-razed resort owned by Uttarakhand BJP leader’s son
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Protesters damaged Yamkeshwar MLA Renu Bisht’s car in Dehradun, on Saturday. Pic/PTI
The Rishikesh-Badrinath national highway was blocked for several hours in Uttarakhand’s Shrinagar area on Sunday by people demanding justice for a 19-year-old woman receptionist killed near Rishikesh allegedly by her employer, a BJP leader’s son. Ankita’s has family questioned the local administration’s move to raze the resort where she worked. They said it was done to destroy evidence.
Ankita Bhandari’s body was found in the Cheela canal close to Rishikesh on Saturday, six days after her parents found her missing from her room. A provisional report said the she died due to drowning and that her body had signs of injury caused by blunt force. As the protesters sat on a dharna on the highway on Sunday, police tried to pacify them by bringing Ankita’s father Virendra Singh Bhandari to the spot to talk to them. They demanded that the perpetrators be hanged immediately.
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