Pahuja murder: Cops look for body along Punjab canal

Nearly a week after a 27-year-old woman was shot dead at a hotel in Gurugram, police are yet to find her body and have extended their search to canals in Punjab, based on the statements of the arrested suspects, officers associated with the case said on Monday.

Divya Pahuja, an accused in the alleged fake encounter of dreaded gangster Sandeep Gadoli, was out on bail after spending seven years in prison. She was killed on January 2. Police said she was allegedly blackmailing Abhijeet Singh, 56, a hotel owner in the city, who purportedly shot her dead at one of his properties.

Singh, and his employees Hemraj, 28, and Om Prakash, 23, were arrested in connection with the case. Police also recovered BMW car used to transport the body from Patiala in Punjab, but the two men who allegedly disposed of the body - identified as Balraj Gill and Ravi Bandra - are yet to be found, and six days after her murder, Pahuja's body remains missing.

The murder came to light after Pahuja's family, unable to contact her, approached th police suspecting

Subsequently, foul play a police team reached Singh's hotel on Tuesday night, found bloodstains, and then accessed CCTV footage which showed two men dragging a body wrapped in a bed sheet and loading it into a blue BMW sedan.