Former model Divya Pahuja shot dead in Gurugram hotel months after bail in gangster Gadoli’s ‘fake’ encounter case

Former model Divya Pahuja shot dead in Gurugram’s Hotel City Point room after being granted bail in connection with a gangster Gadoli's 'fake' encounter case.

A former model was shot dead in a hotel room in Gurugram months after being granted bail after spending seven years in jail in connection with a Gurugram gangster’s ‘fake’ encounter case in Mumbai, police said on January 3.

They said five people took Divya Pahuja (27) to the hotel room on January 2 night and shot her in the head allegedly because she used to extort money from the hotel-owner by blackmailing him with his “obscene pictures”, a claim denied by her family.

The Gurugram Police said they arrested three of them while they were taking the body to dump somewhere.

According to the police, the three arrested accused are hotel’s owner Abhijeet Singh (56), a native of Model Town in Hisar, and his two employees — Hemraj (28), a resident of Nepal, and Omprakash (23), a resident of Jalpaiguri, West Bengal.

A CCTV footage shows the accused purportedly dragging the body wrapped in a white sheet through the lobby of Hotel City Point.

Police said Divya Pahuja was shot dead allegedly by the hotel owner because she extorted money from him after blackmailing him with his “obscene pictures”.

But her sister Naina Pahuja claimed in a police complaint that slain gangster Sandeep Gadoli’s sister Sudesh Kataria and brother Brahm Prakash Kataria gave money to Abhijeet Singh to kill the former model.