Nidhi was arrested in Agra in a Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, (1985) case according to an FIR registered in December 2020. Currently Nidhi is out on bail, police sources said.
Naveen, who claimed to be a friend of Anjali said both the deceased and Nidhi were partying at a hotel along with a few other friends during which there was an altercation between the two women Nidhi and Anjali.
After the Delhi Police arrested the sixth accused in the Kanjhawala case, the police received some more CCTV visuals, in which Ashutosh and the accused were seen meeting after the incident.
Setting the records straight, Delhi Police said on Friday said that Nidhi, an eye-witness in the Kanjhawala case has not been arrested, she was called to join the investigation.
In a significant development in the Kanjhawala case, Delhi Police on Thursday added the 'destruction of evidence' section of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) to the FIR against the accused.
A Delhi Court on Thursday extended the police custody for four days of all the five persons, accused of hitting a 20-year-old girl and dragging her for a considerable distance leading to her death in Outer Delhi's Kanjhawala.
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal on Thursday expressed dissatisfaction with the Delhi Police's action in the Kanjhawala case and demanded that it be transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Sudesh, mother of Kanjhawala death case eye witness Nidhi, on Thursday, claimed that her daughter was terrified after the accident and that is why she did not report the matter to the police.
Asha Devi, mother of Nirbhaya who was gang-raped and murdered in 2012, on Wednesday met the family of the 20-year-old women, who died after being hit by a car in the Khanjawala area of the national capital and then dragged for a few kilometres on the road.
The mother of the victim in the horrific Kanjhawala incident in the national capital on Wednesday dismissed claims made by deceased Anjali's 'friend' Nidhi and said that she "might be involved" in this "well-thought-out conspiracy".
In a major development into the Kanjhawala death case, the Forensic Science Laboratory on Wednesday said that initial examination suggests no sign of the woman present inside the car has been found so far.