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.
The police personnel, escorting murder accused Aaftab Amin Poonawala during a sword attack attempted by Hindu Sena workers, belonged to the third battalion of Delhi Police, officials said.
The former chief minister of Karnataka Siddaramaiah defended rape-accused Lingayat seer Shivamurthy Murugha. He said that many MLAs and MPs are murder accused but no one is guilty until convicted.
"Accused Sandeep Sunny was arrested on the same day of the incident. He committed a hate crime after getting radicalised on social media, though it isn't the entire part and needs further technical probe," said Amritsar CP Arun Pal Singh.
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], October 8 (ANI): The Uttarkhand Police has increased the charges on the accused of the murder of Ankita Bhandari whose body was recovered from Chilla canal in Rishikesh on September 24.