PIONEER EDGE NEWS SERVICE / Haridwar Vinod Arya, father of the 2022 Ankita Bhandari murder case convict Pulkit Arya, has questioned the Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigation and demanded an impartial Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe, claiming that several aspects of the case were not properly examined. He also alleged that the police ignored around 4,085 pages of mobile chat records between Bhandari and her boyfriend during the investigation. Arya, a former Bharatiya Janata Party position holder, appeared before the media at the Haridwar Press Club on Sunday along with his lawyer Anuj Pundir. He claimed that Bhandari was not murdered and alleged that the police turned the case into a murder case under public pressure. Denying the involvement of any VIP in the case, he said that the mobile chat records between Bhandari and her boyfriend, Pushp, were obtained from the court in 2023. However, he alleged that the police did not give proper attention to the contents of the chats. He claimed that a detailed examination of these chats could have brought different facts to light. He also questioned chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami’s remarks in a television interview about hanging the accused, claiming that such statements could affect the judicial process. Arya further alleged that his factory and resort, worth around Rs 50 crore, were set on fire and damaged, but the police did not register a case on his complaint. Meanwhile, Pulkit and his two associates have already been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Bhandari murder case. A separate CBI investigation into the alleged VIP connection is also underway.