A CBI team on Tuesday visited Dehradun and collected all documents related to the police probe into the 2022 murder of a teenage receptionist of a Rishikesh resort. Before the visit, the Special Crime Branch of the CBI registered a case at its Section-2 centre in New Delhi on Monday. Pulkit Arya, the owner of the resort and the son of now-suspended BJP leader Vinod Arya, and two resort managers are serving life terms over the murder. The protesters — mostly social and political groups — had been alleging that the CBI was delaying the start of its probe as close to a month had passed since the case was handed over to the central agency. BJP leader Dhami had been against a CBI probe and said on multiple occasions that the state agencies were efficient enough.

Source: The Telegraph February 04, 2026 00:03 UTC