According to the prosecution, Bhandari and Arya had a dispute over something after which the three pushed the woman into the Cheela canal in Rishikesh.After her body was found from the canal, the police arrested all three.Pulkit Arya is the son of former BJP leader Vinod Arya.As soon as the matter came to light, the party showed the door to Vinod Arya.Only a mother can understand the pain of losing a daughter, Devi said, adding that she will be satisfied only when her daughter’s killers get the death penalty while she is alive.Ankita’s father Virendra Bhandari said that he wanted the death penalty for his daughter’s murderers, so he would challenge the lower court’s decision in the High Court.”Our demand was that the way they killed our daughter, they should also have been given the death penalty,” Virendra Bhandari told reporters.He also demanded a probe into the involvement of BJP MLA from Yamkeshwar Renu Bisht and a VIP whose names came up in the case.The parents thanked people for their support and said that they would approach the High Court to get a bigger punishment for the culprits in the case.A large number of police force was deployed in the court in view of the verdict in the case.The court premises were cordoned off by more than 450 policemen.
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