Nainital:

The Uttarakhand Excessive Court docket on Thursday directed the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) probing the Ankita Bhandari homicide case to file a standing report together with the case diary.

A single bench of Justice Sanjay Kumar Mishra handed the order whereas listening to a petition filed by Ashutosh Negi, a resident of Pauri Garhwal.

The court docket has fastened November 3 for the subsequent listening to of the matter.

The petition has requested handy over the investigation of the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

Bhandari (19) was allegedly killed by the proprietor of a resort the place she labored as a receptionist.

It has been alleged that after the homicide, necessary proof associated to the crime was destroyed on the directions of Yamkeshwar MLA Renu Bisht by working a bulldozer at Vanantra Resort.

Bhandari was allegedly killed by the resort proprietor proprietor Pulkit Arya, supervisor Saurabh Bhaskar and assistant supervisor Ankit Gupta when she resisted their makes an attempt to drive her to supply “further providers” to a VIP visitor.

The homicide had triggered an enormous public outrage.

Arya, now in jail together with the opposite two accused, is the son of former BJP chief Vinod Arya, who was expelled from the get together quickly after the homicide got here to gentle.

The physique of Bhandari was recovered from the Chilla canal in Uttarakhand’s Rishikesh on September 24.

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