Divya Pahuja murder: Murdered gangster’s girlfriend shot dead by Gurugram hotel owner, chilling CCTV video emerges | WATCH

Divya Pahuja, a former model, was out on bail after spending seven years in jail in connection with her alleged boyfriend and gangster Sandeep Gadoli’s fake encounter in 2016.

Divya Pahuja murder case: A former model and alleged ‘girlfriend’ of a murdered gangster was reportedly fatally shot in the head by a hotel owner in Haryana’s Gurugram. Twenty-seven-year-old Divya Pahuja was shot dead in a hotel room on Tuesday evening, police said.

Officials said Divya Pahuja, 27, was taken to a hotel room by five people on Tuesday evening and shot in the head, allegedly because she was extorting money from the hotel owner by blackmailing him with his “obscene photos”. Pahuja’s family has denied the extortion claims.

Significantly, Divya, a former model, was out on bail after spending seven years in jail in connection with a fake encounter case of a Gurugram-based gangster in Mumbai.

Gurugram police said they arrested three of them while taking the body to a dumping ground.

According to police, the three arrested suspects include hotel owner Abhijeet Singh (56), a native of Model Town in Hisar, and his two employees – Hemraj (28), a resident of Nepal, and Omprakash (23), a resident of Jalpaiguri, West Bengal.’

Meanwhile, CCTV footage emerged on Wednesday showing the suspect dragging the body, wrapped in a white sheet, through the lobby of Hotel City Point.

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE: (Trigger warning: disturbing images)

Former model Divya Pahuja found dead in Gurugram hotel, allegedly murdered by hotel owner Abhijeet Singh, Prakash & Indraj
– All three arrested

CCTV captures disturbing scenes as suspects drag her body and dump it in a BMW car before fleeing.

Divya was girlfriend of slain gangster… pic.twitter.com/hzfpZHka5S

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Family Says Murdered By Siblings Of Slain Gangster Friend, Refutes Sextortion Claims

Police alleged that Divya Pahuja blackmailed the hotel owner with his ‘obscene photos’ and extorted money from him, prompting the man to commit her murder.

However, the extortion claims have been refuted by the victim’s family, who alleged that she was killed on the orders of her slain friend and gangster Sandeep Gadoli’s sister Sudesh Kataria and brother Brahm Prakash Kataria, who paid the hotel owner to kill her to protect their family to avenge. the death of his brother in a fake encounter.

Divya’s sister Naina Pahuja has made these allegations in a police complaint against Sudesh Kataria and her brother Brahm Prakash Kataria.

Following Naina Pahuja’s complaint in the present case, an FIR was registered under Sections 302 (murder), 201 (concealment of evidence), 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code on the sector 14 police station and The police interrogate the arrested suspect.

Sandeep Gadoli, a dreaded gangster from Gurugram, was killed in a gunfight in Mumbai on February 6, 2016. Later, Mumbai Police said that Gadoli was trapped and killed in a fake encounter with the help of his ‘girlfriend’ Pahuja. .

Blackmail and sextortion?

During the first interrogation, Abhijeet Singh, the main suspect, told police that Hotel City Point belongs to him, but he has rented it out.

He alleged that Divya Pahuja was blackmailing him with his ‘obscene photos’ and extorting money. He said she wanted a huge amount this time.

Police spokesperson Subhash Boken said, “Accused Abhijeet said that he had come to Hotel City Point with Divya Pahuja on January 2 and he wanted to delete his obscene photos from her phone, but Divya Pahuja did not tell her phone password.

“As a result, Abhijeet shot dead Divya Pahuja along with Hemraj and Om Prakash, who were working as cleaning and reception staff at the hotel. They kept the dead body in the BMW car of accused Abhijeet.

“After this, accused Abhijeet called his two other associates and gave them his car to remove the dead body. Our teams are conducting raids to nab the suspects and recover the body,” he said.

The victim’s sister disputes the suspect’s story

According to the complaint filed by Naina Pahuja, a resident of Baldev Nagar, her sister Divya Pahuja went to meet Singh for the last time on January 1 and they spoke to her on January 2 around 11.50 am.

Afterwards, her family tried to reach her phone but failed to reach her. Naina said that, concerned about her well-being, they went to Abhijeet Singh’s house in South Ext, New Delhi, where his friend “Balraj” (who has been identified in the police version as Hemraj) was present and he was in possession of the phone by Divya Pahuja.

“I took Divya’s phone from Balraj and reached Abhijeet at his hotel in Gurugram, where my sister was last present. When I asked him to show the CCTV footage, he continued to deny and argue. I finally called the police and they started an investigation. I found my sister’s blazer at Abhijeet’s hotel and when I returned from his hotel, he handed over my sister’s debit card and pan card, saying that she had left them with him,” said Naina Phuja.

Her suspicions grew when she found bloodstains on the floor of a hotel room and also found her sister’s ring, shoes and other items in the hotel’s storage room.

Singh’s housekeepers Hemraj and Prakash helped him get rid of the body, police said, and Abhijeet also offered people Rs 10 lakh to get rid of the body.

Anup, his partner, also helped him dump the body, they said.

Naina alleged in her complaint, ‘Divya was the key witness in Sandeep Gadoli’s murder case and we are completely sure that Sandeep Gadoli’s sister Sudesh Kataria and his brother Brahm Prakash gave money to Abhijeet for Divya’s murder.

“It is clearly visible that after killing Divya, Abhijeet wrapped her body in a white sheet and after dragging it away, kept her body in his blue BMW car and sent it somewhere. A woman, who had boy-cut hair and wore a black and white sweater, is also involved in my sister’s murder.

Sandeep Gadoli fake encounter case

Virendra Kumar alias Binder Gujjar led a rival gang and allegedly conspired with Haryana police to eliminate Sandeep Gadoli. Gujjar was in jail at the time of the encounter, but he hatched the conspiracy with the help of his brother Manoj and detained Pahuja as a honey trap.

An FIR was registered against five police personnel, Pahuja, her mother and others.

The Bombay High Court had granted bail to Pahuja in June last year, about seven years after she was arrested.

(With PTI inputs)