AAP women's wing protests against BJP over Uttarakhand teen murder

New Delhi, Sep 25 (PTI) The women's wing of the Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday held a protest here against the BJP over the murder of a 19-year-old receptionist in Uttarakhand and demanded the "strictest punishment" for her killers.

Ankita Bhandari was found dead in the Cheela canal close to Rishikesh on Saturday, six days after her parents found her missing from her room. She worked at the Vanantara resort in Pauri district's Yamkeshwar block owned by Haridwar BJP leader Vinod Arya's son Pulkit Arya. Pulkit and two other employees have been arrested in the case.

In New Delhi, the AAP's women's wing members had planned to take out a protest march and gherao the BJP headquarters to demand justice for the victim. They were stopped by the police, who put up barricades near the AAP headquarters.