Finally, the husband of Aanchal Pandhi who was found dead under mysterious circumstances at her rented accommodation at Pacific Hill Apartment in Rajpur on February 14 was arrested. It is learnt that a police team led by Shweta Choubey, Dehradun SP Rural, who is investigating the death of Aanchal, arrested Rahul Pandhi from Kalkaji in Delhi on Saturday.
Commenting on the death of Pandhi, State DGP MA Ganapathi said on Saturday that the case amounting to abetment of suicide as per the forensic investigation, police have procured summon from the court against Rahul Pandhi, the deceased’s husband. “Besides, we would appeal to the court to declare him an absconder so that we can seize his property if he fails to surrender,” he said, adding that they were also probing whether other relatives had been involved in the case. “Once we get sufficient evidences charge-sheets would be filed regarding the case,” the state’s top cop said.
Choubey said that police had secured non- bailable warrant for his arrest from the court and teams were formed to arrest him. A team led by her had reached Delhi and arrested the accused, she said, adding that section 306 of IPC had been added in the existing FIR lodged against the accused in Rajpur police station.
Mystery shrouded the death of Anchal who was found hanging in her rented accommodation at Pacific Hill Apartment at Rajpur on February 14 morning.
DPG MA Ganapathy having ordered a fresh investigation to be led by Dehradun SP Rural Shweta Choubey has resulted in the arrest of the accused. The order had followed the deceased’s parents and others meeting the DPG and demanding an independent inquiry into the incident. Deceased’s parents had also met senior state government officials and the state BJP president Ajay Bhatt.
Earlier, DGP had ordered Rahul Pandhi be subjected to lie detector test. The lie detector test report would be matched with the statement recorded by Rahul at police station soon after the death was reported, he had said while issuing the order.
This aside, as per the order of the DGP, a medical board would be constituted to re-examine the post-mortem report to find out the actual reason of the death based on other collected evidences.
According to police sources, Rahul was in the same house on the night the incident happened. Soon after the death, the deceased’s father Anil Kohli had registered a complaint with the police station and subsequently, a case under section 302 of IPC had been registered against four persons, including Rahul.
Earlier, Rajpur police station in-charge Pradeep Singh Rawat who was investigating the case had said post-mortem report had confirmed thatAnchal had died of hanging.