One was Ankita Bhandari…

One was Ankita Bhandari

Ankita, brave daughter of Uttarakhand

(Self-written story based on an original true incident)

Jogeshwari Sadhir Sahu

This is a very sad incident of 2022 which shook the entire country. After the murder of Sushant Singh Rajput, Ankita’s murder proved that a political nexus has been formed in the country which can easily kill any innocent person.

Ankita Bhandari was a gentle girl of only 19 years who was killed by people involved in the prostitution business.

The only similarity between the murders of Sushant Singh Rajput and Ankita is that it is a crime committed under a heinous crime like human trafficking which shakes the soul.

Both Ankita and Sushant were upper caste, both were intelligent and wanted to do something in life on their own. But both of them got trapped in a gang that deals in prostitution and drugs and has the power of the police as well as political support.

Ankita was just a 19-year-old girl who came from Srikota village of Pauri Garhwal district, which is in Uttarakhand, which is called the Devbhoomi of the country. This is a very backward village where there is no electricity. There are old houses which are made of stone. There was an innocent bird in the courtyard, a girl like a doll, she had just given her 12th exam, had done a pharmacy course and wanted to study further but was short of money. Father had lost his job, elder brother had probably gone to Delhi to study accounting and this time he had sent a cute top from Delhi for his beloved sister on Raksha Bandhan, wearing which Ankita had made a video and sent it to brother.

The brothers, sisters and their poor parents had so many desires but everything was ruined.

Ankita thought that she would do a job to complete her brother’s education. Mother had also taken up the job of an Anganwadi worker, everything was going well.

Ankita was very excited, she was a serious personality. She was also a source of inspiration for all the girls in the village. Boys also took inspiration from him to study and move ahead.

Ankita had a lot of enthusiasm, there was poverty but there was poverty, everyone lived together and the whole village was one. Ankita also has a grandmother who loved her very much.

Ankita had good marks in 12th. She had got higher first class. She wanted to fly very high. For further studies, she thought of doing a little job. As soon as she earned money, maybe she would have done coaching in air hostel, but that did not happen. .

In those days, Ankita had become good friends with a Facebook friend named Pushp. She started sharing everything with Pushp. She had then expressed her wish that she would first do a small job and then continue her further studies, this would provide support to the family as well. Apart from his brother’s education, he also wanted to improve his old dilapidated house a bit. She was a very intelligent and forward-thinking girl, but it was this intelligence and self-confidence that took her life.

Ankita had asked Pushp to see and tell about the job, then Pushp came to know that there is a pharmacy job in Vanntra Resort, Rishikesh, he immediately asked Ankita to go there. Maybe you will get up to Rs 10000 per month. Then Ankita’s happiness knew no bounds.

After Raksha-Bandhan, in the rainy month of September, she contacted Pushp on the number given by her and the reply came from there that yes! The position of receptionist is vacant, she can come and join immediately. Yes, as soon as Ankita heard it, she got ready and reached Vannatara Resort with her father with a bag and a suitcase.

She had reached there in the evening. Who knows, the father must have returned after taking her to such a big mysterious resort and then he did not find his angel-like daughter alive.

Who knows what his parents must have gone through and how they could not foresee the impending danger, how their job must have cost them their lives? Why did her father not realize from his experience that he was leaving his daughter in the den of beasts?

When Ankita reached there, she felt very strange. After her father’s departure, she felt a fear because there were no girls there. It was fortunate that the staff was sympathetic towards him. There was another boy nearby who said that he has been here for 15 days but he is not liking anything, he is leaving and if possible, he will find a job for him too.

After that Ankita became very lonely. She got a pharmacy job in Pulkit Arya’s father’s Sanjeevani Udyog. She was given the identity card of pharmacy only.

There was a strange deathly silence and heart-wrenching desolation in Vannatara Resort. Ankita had to sit at the reception and there was a party that evening and a drunk guest hugged her, on which Pulkit Arya casually scolded the guest.

That boy had returned to his father, whom Ankita considered like a brother. Now what remained was the working staff, among whom was the cook and his assistants, with whom Ankita had little confidence. But Ankita was upset, she was not able to steady her mind and was telling her friend Pushp that the environment here was not good.

One day, perhaps on the third day, Pulkit told Ankita that since the party would last all night, she should sleep in the room adjacent to his room. Ankita slept in the room adjacent to Pulkit’s room that night. She was a brave girl who had come out of the house determined to work, but she could not recognize the bad intentions of her employer.

Then the next day when she went to her room at night, Pulkit was sitting on her bed drinking alcohol, seeing which Ankita got angry and asked Pulkit to go out immediately but she could not understand that Pulkit and his guests and All his friends are repeatedly planning to take away his respect and doing various dramas.

After giving her an appointment on the first day, they all had planned to play with Ankita’s body. In other words, everyone’s malicious eyes were on Ankita’s naked body, whereas they thought it was a normal job or an office job, but it was not.

Pushp had also come to meet him and then he had to understand that there was not even a single woman there, the resort was in a secluded wilderness, so Ankita had to be taken out at that very moment on some pretext. Neither Ankita’s father nor her friend recognized the horror of that dreadful place, nor did they take any notice of the absence of population around that place. Usually, such a place is suspicious and in that dungeon in the pouring rain, they left a nineteen year old girl to die in the midst of the evil intentions of the brutes.

Now Ankita was completely alone. She was not feeling good. Who knows whether they were mixing something in her food or doing black magic. She was not able to understand that death was dancing on her head.

Now Pulkit and his friends understood that she was sad and wanted to leave the place after completing the month’s work. But he had to leave the lure of his first salary and run away.

She had realized that hell, death was right in front of her, she had told it to Pushp and here Pulkit was continuously doing various dramas to rob her of her respect.

Now Ankita had understood that she would have to leave this place, but she could not understand how. She could not find a way out of that maze. The boy had left her the very next day of her arrival. He had said that he would keep her in his house. That will help him in preparing for the competition. Ankita probably wanted to prepare for admission in some good institute, thinking that she would get some money, she decided to complete the month, whereas the boy’s father had asked her to move away from there and they could not say openly that Ankita should move away.

Now there was a dirty nexus guard around Ankita, rogue leaders were continuously coming to Vannatra who were accompanied by marshals, they were very big leaders and officers, they came in big vehicles. Pulkit wanted to have fun robbing Ankita of her honor and then sell her. There were only three staff there and the rest were friends of Ankita and Pulkit.

People around knew that whenever a girl comes here, this scoundrel Pulkit and his friends rob her of her honor and push her into prostitution. Everyone knew, only Ankita was not aware but she was not feeling good, her mood remained upset, it was as if she was scared but was not able to know what was happening to her.

Some big demon or vampire had taken him into its claws. There was terrible rain and lightning. A week before the 19th day was over, Pulkit said that if his guests were coming, he would have to provide special service. Then Ankita refused and told Pushp that Pulkit and Ankit were pressurizing her for sexual relations.

Ankita was saying that Pushp had said that he would take her, it was raining, the weather was not good, it was raining stormy. Ankita was crying that day and Ankit was playing loud music in her room. When the servants heard that Ankita was crying and pleading for help. When the servant boy wanted to leave, Ankit stopped him. They were forcing Ankita. Or they had taken away her senses by giving her some intoxicating drink whereas Ankita had told the butler on the phone to keep her bag in the car. She wanted to leave the resort at that very moment. By the time the cook turned the car and took her to the resort, they had already gone to Rishikesh with Ankita. In the late evening, when she was crying for help and asking them to keep her bag in the car, then they gave her intoxicating drink and took her somewhere in a semi-conscious state. They had probably taken her to a hotel to the same special guest who had asked her through his political influence to pay Rs 10,000 if she agreed for a special service i.e. sex.

Then there was no trace of Ankita. When the boy returned, he had eaten the food and had asked the cook to give him the food. When the boy brought the food, Ankit had taken the food to Ankita’s room because Ankita was not there. It was 9 o’clock in the night and the scoundrels had gone to sleep. He had left Ankita with the same guest.

Ankita was not seen by the maid staff after that evening and when Pushp called her in the morning, Pulkit said that she had gone somewhere and his phone was switched off. Whereas Pulkit had handed over Ankita to the guest.

Then Pulkit and Ankit came and slept in the resort. Pushp’s uneasiness had increased due to the unknown apprehension, so she called Pulkit in the morning and Pulkit said that I don’t know where Ankita has gone.. has she come to you?

Pushp said – I have been calling you since night but your mobile was switched off.

Pulkit said – Ankita had my phone with her ever since she talked to you at 9 pm.

Pushp told that Ankita’s phone was not working so he called you, where is Ankita?

Pulkit said – Ankita returned with us at 9.30 in the night and went to sleep in her room, but in the morning she was not found, did she not come to you?

Pushp got scared after hearing this and told Ankita’s parents that there was no trace of Ankita, she was worried for many days and I was going to bring her back from the resort but now she has gone missing.

Hearing this, Ankita’s father immediately went to the police station there, but Pulkit and his leader father were already present in the police station near the resort and the police was looking after them.

Ankita’s father had to sit on the ground outside the police station and the police did not listen to his plea and chased him away. Then his father went to the revenue police, who is the Patwari, but after taking the complaint, the Patwari ran away and disappeared. This continued for 2-3 days, then the villagers also joined his father and a journalist brother of his also came to write the report. The villagers now surrounded the police station and also reached Vantra Resort. Then at night, Renu, the MLA there, set Vantra Resort on fire, destroying the evidence, and also burnt the room in which Ankita lived.

This news spread like wildfire throughout Uttarakhand and groups of people started coming towards Vantra Resort. In this way all the channels were covering it but the government was completely silent. Women’s Commission and Women Development Minister also remained silent. .

Public anger was increasing. Pulkit had written in his report that Ankita had angrily scuffled with him and threw his phone into the Chilla lake.

Pulkit was seen taking Ankita with his friends in the CCTV of Chilla Barrage but Ankita was not seen while returning. During interrogation, Pulkit changed his statement every time and told that he took Ankita to visit Rishikesh but while returning, he had an argument with Ankita and he shouted at her and pushed her into the barrage.

The public angrily beat up Pulkit and his friends, but this was nothing in comparison to the atrocities that Pulkit had committed.

Ankita’s body was not found. The people of Srikota village along with her parents were sitting on a dharna. Pulkit and his father were politically influential and hence the police and administration were protecting them. The Patwari had scolded the girl’s father Ramlal and sent him away. He is Ankita’s uncle who is a journalist, so he took up the matter and Justice for Ankita started trending on social media.

Pulkit’s dark deeds started coming to light. The three boys who were working there told that on the night she went missing, she was shouting help me and Ankit was dancing with loud music in the room. Actually, he was forcing himself on Ankita at that time. They had forced her to drink some intoxicating drink due to which Ankita wanted to run away from there but could not and she went to Rishikesh with those executioners, where they gave her to the same paying guest who had given her Rs 10,000 in exchange for robbing her of her honour. Pulkit had made a deal with Ankita to give her 1 month’s salary of Rs 10,000. By giving her to some leader, he would give her Rs 10,000 to earn from her prostitution.

पुलकित ने अंकिता को कहा था कि वो उसे स्पेशल सर्विस के बदले 5000/से लेकर 10000/रू तक देगा. बदले में वो लोग हर रात उसके जिस्म से खेलेंगे नोचेंगे -खसोटगे.

पर अंकिता ने अपनी ग़रीबी के बदले में बिकने से मना कर दिया वो वंहा से जाना चाहती थी उसने अपने 19दिन काम के पैसे मांगे थे बदले में पुलकित और अंकित ने उसे उन दरिंदो को बेच दिया दे आये थे जो उसकी इज्जत लूटकर मजे ले रहे थे.

चारों तरफ से लोगों का हुजूम अब वन्नतरा रिसोर्ट की ओर चल पड़ा था. पुलिस कस्टडी में पुलकित आर्य दोस्तों के साथ मेहमान नवाजी लूट रहा था. पुलकित का पिता सरकार के सहयोगी संगठन का बड़ा नेता था. एक सवर्ण लड़की मगर गरीब की इज्जत की उनकी नज़र में कोई क़ीमत नहीं थी. जो गेस्ट स्पेशल सर्विस में अंकिता की इज्जत से खेल रहे थे वो जनआक्रोश को ठेंगा दिखा कर अंकिता को लूट चुके थे. सस्ते निर्लज्ज शब्दों में कहे तो अंकिता की नवजवानी को तार तार करने वाले दरिंदे मौज कर रहे थे और जनता प्रदर्शन व आंदोलन कर रही थी.पत्रकार और जनता तथा छात्र मिलकर मार्च निकाल रहे थे. पर अंकिता कंहा थी.

पुलकित ने पुलिस को बताया था कि उसने चिल्ला नहर में अंकिता को रात 9.30 को धकेला था तब उसकी लाश क्यों तैरती मिली.

आखिर अंकिता की लाश गुम होने के 6वे दिन पर वंही उतराती मिली तब गौतखोर ने उसकी लाश को निकाल कर थाने भेजा. लाश को अच्छी तरह कवर करके पोस्टमार्टम को ले जाया गया.तब तक शाम हो गईं थी.लाश को देखने नहीं दिया पुलिस ने. माता -पिता दिनभर धरना देते रहे शाम आनन -फानन में लाश को फिर पोस्ट मार्टम गृह से निकाले तो माँ तो देख नहीं सकी पर मोहल्ले की जिन बुजुर्ग औरतों ने देखी उनका कहना था कि अंकिता की लाश देखकर वो दहशत और खौफ से भर गईं थी. क्योंकि जैसे चिलगोंजे खाते है दरिंदो ने वैसे ही उस 19साल की स्कूल की छात्रा जैसी बालिका से दरिंदगी की थी जिसे देखकर रूह कांपती थी.

लड़की के दाँत तोड़े गए थे होंठ उपर आ चुका था चेहरा जला हुआ था और शरीर नीला पड़ गया था. बॉडी फूली या गली नहीं थी पर अंकिता की उंगलियां टूटी थी. जिन्होंने देखा उन औरतों का कहना था कि अंकिता से मारने के पहले दरिंदगी की गईं थी ये सामूहिक रेप जैसी जल्लादी घटना थी. पर पुलिस ने पोस्ट मार्टम रिपोर्ट भी सार्वजनिक नहीं की. पुलिस पूरी तरह राजनीती से प्रेरित लोगों के इशारे पर महज लीपा -पोती में लगी थी.

अब पत्रकारों ने वन्नतरा रिसोर्ट की रिपोर्टिंग की तो पता चला कि वंहा सबूत नष्ट करने आग लगाई गईं थी.अंकिता का कमरा पूरी तरह अस्त -व्यस्त था और वो खाना वैसे ही रखा था. बाकि सबकुछ बदल गया था.पुलिस बेरिकटिंग कर रखी थी जिससे कोई वंत्रा रिसोर्ट में नहीं जा सकते थे. फिर विनोद आर्य की आयुर्वेदिक फैक्ट्री में भी आग लगाई गईं.

पुलिस तरिके से काम नहीं कर रही थी.राजनेता बयान नहीं दे रहे. जनता अभी भी रोज ही धरने पर बैठ रही थी.अंकिता के घर सभी नेता आ रहे थे और उसकी माँ व पिता से मिल कर उन्हें हर्जाना दे रहे थे.

फिर पितृ मोक्ष अमावस्या आई थी सभी रोते रहे. भाई आया जिसे पढ़ाने बहन नौकरी पर चली और अनजाने में जान चली गईं क्योंकि अंकिता जंहा जॉब करने उत्साह से गईं थी वो एक खतरनाक जगह थी जंहा घिनौने राजनेता और अधिकारी आते थे रात भर पार्टी होती थी. इसके अलावा बड़े अय्याशी करने वाले रसूख वाले आते थे.ऐसा ही वी आई पी आया था काली लक्सरी गाड़ी से पांच मार्शल साथ थे उसी ने अंकिता से स्पेशल सर्विस की मांग किया था और नोटों से पुलकित का घर भर दिया था. उसी दिन अंकित ने अंकिता को कहा था कि वो तैयार रहे उसे स्पेशल सर्विस देना है तब अंकिता ने चिल्ला कर कहा था वो ऐसा नहीं करेंगी और उनके गंदे राज सभी से कह देगी. तब अंकिता चिल्ला रही थी पर वो लोग अंकिता को जबरदस्ती नशा कराकर ऋषिकेश ले गये थे फिर अंकिता गायब हुई थी.यानि ले जाते वक़्त ही अंकिता ने अपने दोस्त को बहुत कुछ बताई थी जिसमें उसने वंत्रा के स्याह काले पक्ष को दुनिया के सामने लाने की बात कही थी.जिसके बाद अंकिता पुलकित और उसके पिता के काले कारनामो के खुल जाने के चलते खतरा बन चुकी थी.जिससे वो लोग उसे मार देना चाहते थे.अंकिता को अहसास हो चुका था कि वो गलत जाल में फंस चुकी है वो निकलना चाहती थी पर वो लोग उसे ड्रिंक में नशीली चीज देकर उसे कोई कदम उठाने से रोक रहे थे.

अंकिता को भारी नशीली चीज पिलाइ गईं थीजिसके बाद वो लड़खड़ाने लगी थी उसे वो साथ में ऋषिकेश ले गए थे लौटते वक़्त फिर बात हुई थी तो उन्होंने नहर के पास चिल्ला से ही उसे गायब कर दिया था. पुलकित ने दरअसल अंकिता का राजनेता से सौदा कर लिया था. अंकिता ने भरपूर विरोध किया था पर वो 3लड़के उसे नशा कराकर जबरदस्ती उठा कर वी आई पी नेता को सौंप आये थे.

पुलकित की राजनीतीक पार्टी ने कहा था कि वो नेता दिल्ली का है पर बाद में पता चला था कि वो मप्र का बड़ा नेता था बड़े संगठन से जुड़ा होने से पुलकित का पिता विनोद एक अवैध फैक्ट्री और रिसोर्ट जंगल में चला रहे थे जंहा नशे और जिस्म फरोशी का खुला कारोबार होता था. खुलकर शराब और हुक्के के नशे कराये जाते थे रात भर पार्टी चलती सब अवैध था पर पटवारी व पुलिस भी नियमित आकर स्पेशल सर्विस और सेक्स के मजे लेते थे.इनमें पहाड़ी खूबसूरत लड़कियों से मसाज कराई जाती उनका शरारीक शोषण होता फिर उन्हें मारकर फेंक देते थे. साथ में जंगली जानवरो का शिकार भी होता. जंगल सफारी का मज़ा भी लुटते पर सब अवैध तरिके से किसी का सरकारी रजिस्ट्रेशन नहीं था.

जो काम करने आते उनका भी शरारीक शोषण होता था. इस तरह गलत काम से पुलकित पैसे बनाता उसके पिता का सत्ता और सरकार में दबदबा था तो कोई भी कुछ एक्शन नहीं करते थे.पत्रकार और पुलिस -पटवारी सब हुस्न और शबाब के मजे लुटते और अवैध रिसोर्ट व फैक्ट्री चलाने के मंजूरी दे देते थे. कोई रोक -टोक नहीं थी.

कुछ लड़कियों ने बताई कि उनपर शरीर बेचने का दबाव डाला गया तो वो किसी तरह से भाग गईं. इसके अलावा पहाड़ी गरीब लड़कों का भी यौन शोषण वंहा नेता और अधिकारी आकर करते थे.

विनोद आर्य खुद ड्राइवर का शोषण करता था पुलकित भी लड़के -लड़की का शोषण करते थे.सबसे काम करा लेते पर पैसे नहीं देते थे उलटे लड़के -लड़की का शोषण करते और उन्हें मार देते थे कुछ जान बचा कर भागते थे.पुलकित का बर्ताव बहुत खराब था जिस्से आसपास वाले उनसे दूर रहते थे यदि अंकिता के पिता पहले ही आसपास वालों से पूछते तो उन्हें वास्तविकता पता चल जाती. इसके अलावा पुष्प ने भी देरी कर दी पहली बार ही वो अंकिता को वंहा से निकाल ले जाता क्योंकि पहले दिन से ही अंकिता पर रिसोर्ट के मनहूस विराने साये का बुरा असर पड़ गया था वो भ्रम में पड़ गईं थी कि ये कैसी सुनसान जगह है जंहा कुछ अच्छा महसूस नहीं होता.

बाद में माता -पिता को हर्जाना मिला सभी मिलने आये आंदोलन अभी भी जारी है पर सरकार ने अपनी पार्टी और संगठन के वी आई पी लोगों के नाम दबा लिए वर्ना दिल्ली की सरकार की इमेज खराब होती.

अंकिता की रसूख दार लोगों ने इज्जत लूटी उसकी नव जवानी से खेला और उसे मारकर फेंक दिया. औरतों के संगठन ने आकर जाँच की पर महिला आयोग या महिला मंत्री ने चुप्पी नहीं तोड़ी.

अंकिता के पहले से वंहा नशे और लड़कियों की जिस्म फरोशी का धंधा विनोद आर्य करवा रहा था और बड़े राजनीती संगठन वाले आकर पहाड़ी गरीब लड़की लड़के से अय्याशी करते फिर उन्हें मार देते थे.एक लौहे का पिंजरा भी वंत्रा रिसोर्ट में मिला जो कि गैर कानूनी तरिके से चलाया गया पर विनोद आर्य पर कोई भी कार्यवाही नहीं की गईं.

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