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Uttarakhand Police connected Saturday (January 10, 2026) filed an FIR to place alleged 'VIPs' successful transportation with the Ankita Bhandari execution case, officials said. The improvement came a time aft the State authorities recommended a CBI probe into the matter.
The FIR was lodged astatine the Vasant Vihar constabulary presumption successful Dehradun connected a ailment filed by Padma Bhushan-awarded environmentalist Anil Prakash Joshi to the Director General of Police.
Mr. Joshi, successful the complaint, has stated that the criminals progressive successful Ankita's execution person been convicted, but allegations are being made that grounds has been concealed oregon destroyed.
An probe into the transgression involving an unidentified person, described arsenic a "VIP," is indispensable to guarantee implicit justice, helium added.
Based connected the complaint, the constabulary registered an FIR nether sections 238, 249 and 45 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Meanwhile, erstwhile Chief Minister Harish Rawat said that the FIR should person been filed by Ankita's parents.
"The idiosyncratic named successful the FIR is simply a highly respected person, but it would person been amended if the FIR had been filed connected behalf of Ankita's parents," helium said successful a societal media post, adding that the State authorities should summon Ankita's father, Virendra Singh, and with the assistance of societal workers, hole the ailment according to the FIR helium desires.
Opposition parties, however, are adamant that the CBI probe beryllium conducted nether the supervision of a sitting Supreme Court oregon High Court judge.
Various governmental and societal organisations person called for a "Uttarakhand Bandh" connected Sunday to property for this demand.
State Congress president Ganesh Godiyal said the enactment volition enactment the Statewide bandh.
Garhwal Inspector General of Police Rajiv Swaroop said the constabulary person made extended preparations to support information and instrumentality and bid successful presumption of the bandh.
Mr. Swaroop besides appealed to each parties to refrain from sharing immoderate inflammatory posts connected societal media during this period.
