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New Delhi: On Saturday, an official said that the body of former model Divya Pahuja, who was shot dead in a Gurgaon hotel last week, has been found in a Haryana canal. They added that her body was found almost after 11 days from the Tohana canal.
Around six teams were investigating the murder mystery of 27-year-old Divya Pahuja. Police said that the body had been thrown in Bhakra canal in Punjab and had drifted to the neighbouring state. Police investigated the route from Punjab to Haryana after which the body was recovered.
Cops said that they sent photos to Pahuja’s family, who identified her body. The body has been sent for an autopsy. Earlier, Balraj Gill, one of the accused in the murder of former model Divya Pahuja, was arrested at the Kolkata airport by Gurugram Police on Thursday (January 11). The accused had yesterday confessed that he had dumped her body in a canal in Punjab on January 3, a day after her alleged murder.
He told the police during his interrogation that he disposed of the former model’s body in a canal in Patiala, which is about 270 kilometres from Gurugram, where she was allegedly murdered on January 2. Another accused, Ravi Banga, is still reported to be on the run.
Divya, a former model, was shot dead allegedly by hotel owner Abhijeet Singh in Gurugram. He, along with two others, allegedly dragged the body into a car and dumped it in Patiala. Divya Pahuja was killed at a Gurgaon hotel on January 2, with CCTV footage showing killers dragging her body out of the hotel to a car.
Earlier,Gurugram Police said it had recovered the car that was allegedly used to dispose of the body of the former model, who was shot dead in a hotel room. Police said that the 27-year-old was taken to a hotel room by five men. She was shot in the head as she had allegedly been blackmailing the hotel owner with his obscene pictures, police said.
Karan Singh, constable, Crime Branch of Gurugram Police, said earlier,”The car was captured in a security camera as being parked near the toll plaza. We learnt that the vehicle was being driven towards Patiala. We were trying to trace the vehicle that was used in the crime.” Divya Pahuja was in jail for her alleged involvement in the fake encounter of her then-boyfriend and Gurugram gangster Sandeep Gadoli in 2016. She had been granted bail in June last year.
