Divya Pahuja murder: Main accused disposed weapon, 2 others took body in car
Gurugram, Jan 6: The main accused arrested in ex-model Divya Pahuja's murder has revealed that he disposed of the crime weapon on Old Delhi road here while his accomplices took the body in a car, police said on Saturday.
While the blue BMW car, which was used to transport Divya's body, was recovered from Punjab, the Gurugram Police are yet to trace the body and nab two other accused -- Balraj Gill and Ravi Bandra.
On January 2, Divya was taken to Hotel City Point by five people and allegedly shot dead inside room number 111, police said.
According to new revelations by the main accused, hotel owner Abhijit Singh, he had thrown the murder weapon and other items, including Divya's second phone and her ID card, on Old Delhi road, the investigating officer said.
Abhijit disclosed that he along with Gill and Bandra reached Old Delhi Road later in the night after the murder, the officer said, adding that Gill and Bandra dropped Abhijit there and left with Divya's body still in the boot of the car.
The police conducted searches on the Old Delhi road three times but could not find the murder weapon and Divya's belongings, the officer said.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) is continuously conducting raids in search of Gill, a lawyer by profession, and Bandra. Till now, Abhijit, Hemraj and Omprakash have been arrested in connection with the case, the officer said.
The houses of the two absconders in Hisar and Mohali were also raided by the SIT.
In a CCTV footage, Abhijit and Divya can be seen reaching the hotel and Gill is also present with them. After reaching the counter, Gill took a bag from Abhijit and they went towards the rooms.
Another footage shows the suspects, including Abhijit, purportedly dragging Divya's body wrapped in a white sheet through the hotel lobby to the BMW car, police had said.
Divya was in jail for seven years for conspiring a "fake encounter" of her partner gangster Sandeep Gandoli in Mumbai with Gurugram police and rival gang leader Virendra Kumar alias Binder Gujjar on February 6, 2016.
At the time of Gandoli's killing, Gujjar was in prison but had hatched the plan with the help of his brother Manoj and roped in Divya.
Mumbai Police registered an FIR against five police personnel, Divya, her mother and others. The Bombay High Court granted bail to Divya in June, 2023.
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J-K: Six held with drugs, assets worth Rs 73 lakh attached in Udhampur
Jammu (PTI): Six persons were taken into custody during an intensified anti-narcotics crackdown, with police recovering contraband substances and over Rs 23 lakh in Doda and Kathua districts of Jammu and Kashmir, police said on Monday.
In a parallel action, properties worth over Rs 73 lakh linked to drug peddlers were also attached in Udhampur district under relevant legal provisions, the police said.
Additional Superintendent of Police, Doda, Mohd Aslam said three persons, including a woman, were detained during a raid on a house at Dak Mohalla in the main town following recovery of 85 grams of suspected brown sugar and over Rs 23 lakh on Sunday evening.
He identified the woman as Zareena Begum, stating that she had been under police surveillance following inputs indicating her involvement in drug peddling.
Besides Zareena, officials said her daughter and son-in-law were also picked up by police during the raid.
“We have taken three individuals into custody. Their roles are being examined, and based on that, arrests will be made. We are continuing raids at other suspected locations,” Aslam said.
Three drug peddlers --Pardeep Singh of Hiranagar, Rahees Butt of Billawar and Ali Sen of Amritsar (Punjab) -- were arrested along with heroin at different places in Kathua district, a police spokesman said.
He said while 2.79 gm of heroin was seized from Singh, 2.66 gm were recovered Butt. Similarly, 303 gm of heroin was seized from Sen who was intercepted near Berrian-Pattan village while moving in a private car from Bhagthali to Maggar Khad on the Jammu-Pathankot highway.
All the three were booked under the NDPS Act and further investigations are on, the spokesman said.
In Udhampur, the spokesman said properties worth Rs 73 lakh were attached in two separate cases registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
The attached properties included a newly constructed residential house, a car, a motorcycle and a mobile phone with a total value of Rs 65 Lakh, belonging to accused Saif Ali who was booked under the NDPS case in Majalta area early this year, he said.
In another action, movable property worth Rs 8 lakh comprising a car, belonging to accused Danish Butt of Doda has been attached under Section 68(F) NDPS Act in connection with an FIR registered at Rehambal police station, the spokesman said.
