Ankita murder case: Opposition parties protest, demand CBI probe as police rules out ‘VIP’ angle

Key Highlights

• During the protest, opposition party workers held placards with slogans like "Give justice to Ankita", "No more delays, surround the Chief Minister," and "Who is the real culprit, who is silent in Delhi," and raised anti-government slogans.
• They said the protest would continue until their demands were met.
• Indresh Maikhuri, the State secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist), who appealed to people to join the protest march, said that the statement by Haridwar SP (Rural) Shekhar Suyal, who is involved in the investigation of the murder case, that there was no 'VIP' involvement in the case, cannot be accepted.
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• Maikhuri said that in its judgment delivered in May 2025, the Additional District and Sessions Court of Kotdwar had sentenced Pulkit Arya, the owner of Vanantra Resort in Pauri district, and his two employees, Ankit Gupta and Saurabh Bhaskar, to life imprisonment for the murder.