'Resort receptionist was killed for refusing to give special services to guests'

The Uttarakhand top cop on Saturday said that the 19yearold receptionist whose body was fished out from a canal on Saturday was being pressured by the resort owner to provide special services to guestsDGP Ashok Kumar said that this much has been known from the girls chat with a friend of hersEarlier a Facebook friend of the receptionist had reportedly said that his friend was killed because she refused to have sex with guests as demanded by the owner of the resort where she workedA receptionist at a resort owned by a BJP leaders son was allegedly killed by the owner and his two other employeesBefore her body was found she was reported missing by her parents after they could not find her in her room Monday morningReportedly the friend said that she had called him the night she was killed to tell him she was in troubleAccording to reports the victim had told her friend that the owner and the managers of the resort where she worked were mounting pressure on her to have sex with guests visiting the resortAlso Read RJD chief Lalu Yadav slams Home Minister Amit Shah for attacking Bihar govtAfter 830 pm her phone went unreachable When after repeated attempts he could not connect to her the girls friend called Pulkit Arya the resort owner who said she had gone to her room to sleepThe next day when he reportedly called Aryas again his phone too was found switched off The friend then rang up Ankit the resorts manager who said she was in gymHe then spoke to the resorts Chef who told him he had not seen the girl that dayResorts owner Pulkit Arya its manager and assistant manager were arrested on Friday and sent to a 14day judicial custodyPulkit Arya the key accused in the case is a son of Vinod Arya a BJP leader from HaridwarThe politician was formerly a chairman of the Uttarakhand Mati Kala BoardAn angry mob attacked the police car when the accused were being taken to a court in Kotdwar on FridayThe mob smashed the windowpanes of the car and roughed up the three menSome women part of the mob demanded that the accused must be hangedLocals in Bhogpur where the resort is located too hurled stones at it and broke its window glasses in protestIn a late night action on Friday the authorities started demolishing the resort saying it was built illegallyThe girls body was recovered Saturday morning from the Cheela canal into which she had been thrown by her alleged killersA post mortem of her body is currently underway at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh police saidOn the alleged delay in action against the culprits DGP Kumar said the matter was transferred to regular police from revenue police on Thursday and within 24 hours the accused were sent behind barsMeanwhile a pickle factory near the resort owned by Arya caught fire on Saturday raising doubts whether it was an attempt by the murder accused to destroy evidenceChief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has ordered an SIT to be headed by DIG P Renuka Devi to probe into the killing of the girlThe Congress staged protests in the district headquarters on Saturday decrying the poor safety of women in the statePCC president Karan Mahra said the girl had gone missing on September 18 and the FIR was lodged four days later It shows the state government is not serious in its actions Women are not safe in Uttarakhand Mahra saidThe action being taken by the state government is just an eyewash The resort has been demolished only partiallyIt may also be an attempt to destroy evidence Pradesh Congress leader Garima Dhasauni saidThis 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