After a much uproar, police ahs arrested the BJP leader’s son who owns a resort in Yamkeshwar block of Pauri district and his two employees on Friday allegedly for killing a 19-year-old girl who went missing for the last few days.
The girl worked as a receptionist at the resort and she went missing for last few days. A missing complaint was lodged at a revenue police outpost. Acting on the complaint, police cracked the case within 24 hours of being transferred from the revenue police to regular police, a senior police official said.
A team has been sent to search for the girl’s body in the canal, he said.
Pulkit Arya is the son of Vinod Arya, a BJP leader from Haridwar, and a former chairman of Uttarakhand Mati Kala Board.
The three accused were sent to a 14-day judicial custody by a Kotdwar court, police said.