CCTV Footage Reveals Last Sighting Of Former Model Divya Pahuja’s Body

New Delhi:

CCTV footage recovered from the Gurugram lodge the place former mannequin Divya Pahuja was shot useless has helped the police piece collectively the sequence of occasions on the day of the homicide. The footage reveals Divya Pahuja on the reception with the lodge proprietor, Abhijeet Singh – who’s the primary accused within the case – early within the morning on Tuesday. Lower than 20 hours later, her physique will be seen dragged down a lodge hall by two males.

The footage of the physique being dragged is, by the way, the final time it was seen. In accordance with the police, the physique was taken to Singh’s BMW, pushed someplace within the route of Punjab and dumped. The automotive has been present in Patiala, however the police are but to find the physique and have launched an enormous hunt for it.

Pahuja, 27, was in jail for seven years for her alleged function within the faux encounter of her then boyfriend and Gurugram gangster Sandeep Gadoli in 2016. She had been granted bail in June final yr.  

Footage from Lodge Metropolis Level’s reception, which has a timestamp of 4.18 am on Tuesday, reveals Singh, Pahuja and one other man strolling in. Singh and the opposite particular person will be seen chatting with the receptionist whereas Pahuja stands behind them. After a few minutes, Singh and Pahuja stroll additional into the lodge whereas the opposite particular person says one thing to the receptionist, earlier than heading of their route.

The following video, mentioned to be from round 10.45 pm, reveals two males dragging Pahuja’s physique, wrapped in a blanket, down a hall of the lodge. One of many males is later seen strolling again. Police mentioned the physique was carried to a blue BMW owned by Singh and disposed of. 

Blackmail Angle

Sources mentioned Pahuja allegedly had some obscene movies of Singh on her telephone which he requested her to delete, however she refused. The previous mannequin was allegedly blackmailing the lodge proprietor with the photographs and this led to Singh and not less than two of his aides taking pictures her. Pahuja’s household has vehemently denied this cost.

Singh and two of his alleged accomplices, Omprakash and Hemraj, have been arrested. Police are looking out for 2 or three different aides, who had been allegedly paid Rs 10 lakh by Singh to eliminate Pahuja’s physique. 

2016 Encounter

Pahuja was the alleged girlfriend of Gurugram’s most-wanted gangster Sandeep Gadoli, who was killed by the Haryana police in an encounter in a Mumbai lodge in 2016. The previous mannequin was within the lodge room with Gadoli when he was killed.

A number of police officers had been later arrested when it was alleged that the encounter was faux. Pahuja and her mom had been additionally taken into custody for allegedly revealing the gangster’s whereabouts and facilitating the “faux encounter”.

Pahuja was in jail since 2016 and had been granted bail by the Bombay Excessive Courtroom in June final yr.