Days after the murder, police recovered the missing body of former model Divya Pahuja from Haryana on Saturday. According to police, the deceased body was recovered from a canal in Haryana.
Divya Pahuja, a former model and one of the accused in the murder of gangster Sandeep Gadoli in 2016, was shot dead in Gurugram hotel on January 2. Pahuja was shot in the head and she had allegedly been blackmailing the hotel owner with his obscene pictures, NDTV reported.
The CCTV footage from the hotel showed three men dragging Divya’s body wrapped in a sheet out of the building and keeping it in the boot of a blue BMW car. The trio later escaped the crime scene in the same car, but were arrested the next day.
Gurugram police had arrested Abhijeet Singh, the owner of the hotel, and his two associates Hemraj and Omprakash on January 3. Police later arrested Megha, a 20-year-old woman from Delhi, allegedly for helping Abhijeet to hide the crime weapon and dispose off Divya’s personal belongings.
According to police, the body was thrown in the canal in Punjab and had drifted to the neighbouring state. The body has been sent for autopsy. Reportedly, Divya’s family identified the body.