New Delhi: Police have discovered the physique of former mannequin Divya Pauja, who was killed at a lodge in Gurugram on January 2, in a canal in Haryana’s Fatehabad district on Saturday, information company IANS reported. The physique was in a decomposed state when it was recovered from the Bhakra canal in Tohana, mentioned Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Varun Dahiya. Divya was shot lifeless by Abhijeet Singh, the proprietor of the Metropolis Level Resort close to the Gurugram bus stand, the place she was staying in room quantity 111.
The police mentioned that Abhijeet and Divya have been in a relationship and he killed her in a match of rage after she refused to erase a few of his compromising photographs from her cellphone.
Abhijeet’s mates, Balraj Gill from Sector-5, Panchkula, and Ravi Banga from Gurudwara Street Mannequin City, Hisar, are believed to have disposed of Divya’s physique. The police have arrested 5 individuals in reference to the homicide – Abhijeet, his associates Om Prakash, Hemraj, Balraj and a lady named Megha. Ravi Banga continues to be on the run.
Megha had assisted Abhijeet in eliminating the homicide weapon, the paperwork and different private gadgets of the sufferer. Om Prakash and Hemraj had helped Abhijeet elevate Divya’s physique and put it within the trunk of a BMW automotive.
Balraj and Ravi then drove away with the physique. Megha informed the police that she noticed Divya’s physique when she arrived on the lodge on January 2. Abhijeet requested her to throw away the belongings of the lifeless girl, however she was too afraid to take action, sources mentioned.
The police have seized the BMW automotive that was used to move the physique to Patiala. Abhijeet informed the police throughout interrogation that Divya used to extort cash from him and blackmail him.
Divya had met Abhijeet by way of Binder Gujjar, a gangster who’s in jail for allegedly masterminding the “pretend encounter” of one other gangster, Sandeep Gadoli, with the assistance of the Gurugram Police, in Mumbai in 2016.
Divya was the principle accused within the case. She was arrested for the homicide of Gadoli and spent seven years in jail. She obtained bail from the Bombay Excessive Courtroom in June final 12 months. Divya’s household has claimed that Abhijeet and Gadoli’s members of the family plotted her homicide.