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Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday rejected the bail plea of Pulkit Arya, who is the main accused in the Ankita Bhandari murder case, asserting that the crime was serious and the assertions in the lower court prove all the accused were present at the spot at the time of the incident, as per news agency ANI. The case was heard by a single bench of Justice Ravindra Maithani.

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The family of the deceased told the court the resort, where Bhandari used to work, was vandalised by the accused to destroy the evidence. The CCTV cameras of the resort were switched off and the DVR was also tampered with.

Ankita Bhandari on September 18, last year, did not respond to her parents’ call. Her family members reached Vanantra Resort, where she was employed as a receptionist, and couldn’t find her in the room either. Her father Pushap Deep became suspicious as she had earlier told him about the harassment she used to face at the workplace. As per reports, she was often pressurised to offer ‘extra services’ to the VIP guests. Owing to the apprehensions, her father got a missing complaint registered with the nearest police station.

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Nothing significant was done for the initial two days and it wasn’t until the case was transferred to another police station that three persons were arrested in the case. The accused--Pulkit Arya (the hotel owner and key accused), the hotel's manager, Ankit Gupta, and Pulkit's friend, Saurabh Bhaskar after interrogation confessed their crime while divulging the details. They told Ankita had an altercation with Pulkit and they were going to a distant location to confabulate over the contention. The fracas grew after which they pushed her into Chilla Canal. Notably, Pulkit Arya is the son of former BJP leader Vinod Arya.