Divya Pahuja, ex-model and girlfriend of gangster Sandeep Gadoli, was killed in a Gurugram hotel, said the officials on Wednesday. According to the officials, she was shot dead at the hotel. A 27-year-old died under suspicious circumstances at a hotel, they added.
She was allegedly killed by the hotel owner identified as Abhijeet Singh. The police arrested the main accused Singh and two of his associates Om Prakash and Hemraj, however, they did not get success in finding the body of the deceased.
The accused was caught on a CCTV camera taking out the body from the hotel and keeping it in a BMW. Pahuja had come to celebrate New Year with the hotel owner.
Gangster Sandeep Gadoli was infamous in the Delhi-NCR region. She was his girlfriend. Her new friend has been accused of her murder. Pahuja was allegedly murdered by her friend in his hotel room. The accused, along with his friends, took her body to another state and dumped it, the sources said.
The deceased was accused in a murder case, said the police. She came on bail from Mumbai jail in July 2023. In 2016, Divya was arrested after an encounter of gangster Sandeep Gadoli in a Mumbai hotel.
Motive behind the murder
Accused Abhijeet told the police during preliminary interrogation that Hotel City Point belongs to the accused which was given on lease. Pahuja had some obscene pictures of the accused and she used to blackmail him. She used to often take money from Singh for expenses and now wanted to extort a huge amount. Yesterday, the accused had come to Hotel City Point with her and he wanted to delete his obscene photos from her phone but Pahuja did not tell the password of the phone which prompted him to shoot dead Pahuja. Hemraj and Om Prakash, who worked as cleaning and reception workers in the hotel, kept the dead body in the accused's BMW. After this, the accused called his two other associates and gave them his car to dispose of the dead body.
Pahuja ditched gangster
Seven years ago, on February 7, 2016, the model who was accused of conspiring with the Gurugram Police to murder her boyfriend gangster Sandeep Gadoli in a fake encounter, was killed by her friend. Gurugram Police was informed this morning by the family members of model that Pahuja, a resident of Baldev Nagar, Gurugram, had gone to celebrate the New Year party with her friend Abhijeet, but her mobile has been switched off for a long time. Based on the information, the police raided the Gurugram hotel of Divya's friend Abhijeet, City Point Hotel, and found blood stains in room number 111 of the hotel, on the basis of which the police took the hotel owner Abhijeet into custody and interrogated him. Abhijeet told that he had killed Divya. Murdered her and along with his friends disposed of his dead body. The police has also recovered CCTV footage from the hotel in which two accused are seen lifting Divya's body and bringing it down at around 11.45 pm on Tuesday night.
(Reported by Sunil Kumar)
