The three accused, including expelled BJP leader's son Pulkit Arya, in the Ankita Bhandari murder case on Thursday refused to undergo narco and polygraph tests after filing the charge sheet.
A single bench of senior judge Sanjay Kumar Mishra, Uttarakhand High Court, dismissed the petition seeking a CBI investigation in the Ankita Bhandari murder case. The single judge bench said that the SIT team is doing satisfactory work in the Ankita Bhandari murder case.
The Uttarkhand Police filed a chargesheet against the three persons accused in the murder of 19-year Ankita Bhandari in September and have submitted it to the Kotdwar Judicial Court on Saturday.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the Ankita Bhandari murder case will file a charge sheet in the court against the three accused this week, confirmed Deputy Inspector General (DIG) P Renuka, in charge of the SIT.
The Court of Judicial Magistrate Kotdwar is scheduled to hear the application of one of the accused in the murder case of Ankita Bhandari in Uttarkhand on December 22 as he has sought time of ten days to give consent for the Narco and Polygraph tests.
"SIT almost completed probe. We'll file the chargesheet this week. We've applied for the NARCO test of the 3 accused, we'll do it if the court permits," said Deputy Inspector General (DIG) P Renuka, SIT Incharge.
The Kotdwar Court of Uttarakhand is scheduled to hear the plea seeking permission to conduct the Narco test of all the three persons accused in the killing of 19-year-old Ankita Bhandari on Monday, in-charge of the SIT probing the case P Renuka Devi informed.
The Uttarakhand Police on Sunday said that the investigation into the Ankita Bhandari murder case is almost complete with just the Narco tests of the accused remaining.
"If required, the SIT probing the Ankita murder case can conduct a narco test on all the three accused including the main accused Pulkit Arya with the permission of the court," Chief spokesperson of Police Headquarters ADG V Murugashan told ANI.
The lifeless body of 19-year-old Ankita, who worked as a receptionist at a resort run by Pulkit Arya, son of now-expelled BJP leader Vinod Arya, was recovered from the Chilla canal in Rishikesh on September 24, this year.