File image of Ankita Bhandari. News18 Hindi
New Delhi: The last rites of Ankita Bhandari, a 19-year-old receptionist who was murdered in Rishikesh, were performed at NIT ghat in Srinagar, Pauri Garwhal in Uttarakhand.
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.
Meanwhile, Uttarakhand chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami has promised a fast-track trial in the case.
“SIT is probing the case from every angle, and evidence related to the case has been safeguarded. I assure you that there’s no attempt to erase the evidence. We’ll try to expedite the case in a fast-track court. We won’t spare culprits,” he said.
With inputs from agencies
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