Ankita Bhandari

Pulkit Arya’s Vanantara resort was sex den of drug-induced orgies: Ex-employees recount ordeal

Mishika (name changed) has come forward, along with her husband to narrate how they were abused and tortured at the Vanatara resort while the duo was employed there for three months, from May to July, 2022

Ankita murder case: Not allowed to look at dead daughter's face one last time, says mother

Ankita’s body was found in the Cheela canal close to Rishikesh on 24 September, six days after her parents found her missing from her room

Uttarakhand murder case: Ankita Bhandari cremated, CM Dhami promises trial in fast-track court

Pulkit Arya, the son of a now expelled BJP leader is among the three people arrested in relation to the case. Earlier, the victim's family had refused to cremate her body until they get the final postmortem report

Ankita Bhandari case: Locals block Badrinath-Rishikesh highway, demand capital punishment for culprits

The local market was shut on Sunday as people showed solidarity ahead of Ankita Bhandari's funeral. Traders of Srinagar, Garhwal, kept their business establishments wholly closed

AAP politicises Ankita Bhandari’s murder, stages anti-BJP protest

The AAP attacked the BJP after Uttarakhand police arrested Pulkit Arya, son of a BJP leader Vinod Arya from Haridwar, for allegedly killing the teenager who had been missing for the last few days

Murder on the Ganges: ‘Saving body for 2nd autopsy, want to know if Ankita was raped; don’t trust police,’ says father

The distraught family, now that their child is lost forever, wants complete closure and needs to know exactly what happened to their 19-year-old girl

Not one but two murders on the Ganges: Ankita Bhandari not the only victim of Pulkit Arya? Where is Priyanka!

Eight months ago, another girl Priyanka from Paudi Garhwal, same place as Ankita hailed, had gone missing under suspicious circumstances from Vanantara resort

Murder on the Ganges: Embarrassed BJP expels father, brother of Ankita Bhandari’s ‘killer’; Pulkit Arya’s brother sacked

The stringent action came after public ire erupted against the state BJP government so much so that local MLA Renu Bisht’s car and the public van transporting the three accused in the case was waylaid, stopped and the accused thrashed

Uttarakhand: Ankita Bhandari's body found in Chilla canal, was reported missing six days ago

Uttarakhand Police on Friday arrested three people including Pulkit Arya, the son of Vinod Arya, a former BJP minister in the state, on charges of murder. Ankita was employed as a receptionist at a resort owned by the former minister in Rishikesh

Murder on the Ganges: Ankita Bhandari's body found, irate locals rough up accused, CM announces SIT

Locals chanting ‘We Want Justice’ had erupted in protest at several locations in Rishikesh on Saturday, the day the first arrests were made in the case. A group of women even intercepted the police vehicle carrying the three accused and vandalised it completely