00:00Okay, let's turn to that Ankita Bhandari story, the murder mystery surrounding 19-year-old
00:05Ankita Bhandari once again in the national spotlight after Rahul Gandhi visited them
00:10along with his sister Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra at a sit-in protest at India Gate last night.
00:16The parents were detained later by the police and only released in the early hours of Thursday.
00:22The family is demanding that BJP leader Dushyant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim governor be
00:27put on hold, insisting that there remain allegations of his links to their daughter's murder case
00:32that need to be properly investigated.
00:35They've now issued a 24-hour ultimatum to the government warning of more protests if their
00:41demands are not met.
00:43Take a look.
00:54Ankita Bhandari's parents picked up by Delhi police from India Gate early Thursday morning.
00:59They had spent the night out in the open, demanding that the Narendra Modi government put on hold
01:05its decision to appoint Dushyant Gautam as the governor of Sikkim.
01:10Just hours earlier, leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi and many other Congress leaders had met
01:16Ankita's parents to show solidarity.
01:20The wife of the child about how the government was
01:21is honored and we can try to put it in a while.
01:27So our topic is that there is 24 hours, if the government will not come to the Narendra Modi,
01:38then the police will get attacked at the 可以.
02:06Ankita Bhandari's murder that took place four years ago is now becoming an election
02:11issue in Uttarakhand.
02:13The 19-year-old worked as a receptionist at a resort near Rishikesh.
02:19She went missing from the resort on September 18th in 2022.
02:24Four days later, her body was found.
02:27She was murdered for resisting resort owners' attempt to push her into sex trade.
02:34After the murder, part of the resort was bulldozed.
02:37Her family claims this destroyed white evidence.
02:42Resort owner Pulkitaria, who is the son of former BJP MLA Vinodarya, was arrested on September
02:4823rd.
02:50Pulkitaria and two others were convicted of the murder in 2025.
02:53All three accused were sentenced to life imprisonment.
02:59The murder case was back in the headlines again in December 2025.
03:06Actress Urmila Sanawar, wife of former BJP MLA Suresh Rathod, posted videos on social media on December
03:1422nd.
03:16Sanawar claimed she had information about the alleged VIP linked to the murder case.
03:21She shared an audio recording of an alleged conversation with Rathod.
03:26The videos mentioned the name Gattu, who many identified as Dushyandh Gautam.
03:33On December 23rd, Rathod claimed the recordings were fake.
03:38Dushyandh Gautam rejected the allegations and filed a defamation case in Delhi High Court
03:43against Sanawar, Rathod and some Congress leaders.
03:49But Trottist swept Uttarakhand over Dushu.
03:52CM Pushkar Dhami was forced to order a CBI probe in January this year.
03:56The central agency took statements from Ankita's family on October 9th.
04:01The delay in CBI is being questioned by the opposition.
04:04And the facts are used to be by other parts of the Чтобы.
04:16That's the reason that caught the Rathod...
04:20The reporting of CBIA is being questioned by the prozent.
04:23The statutes of CBI have mentioned that CBIA is being questioned by the security.
04:41Dushant Gautam's appointment as Sikkim Governor has reignited the controversy.
04:47The Congress is making it one of its main issues in the elections she jewels next year.
04:53Fedankit Sharma, Bureau Report, India Today.
