Divya Pahuja murder: Ex-model was shot at point-blank range. What post-mortem revealed

Former model Divya Pahuja was shot in the head at point-blank range, the post-mortem revealed which was conducted at Agroha Medical College in Haryana’s Hisar.

Eleven days after she was shot dead in a Gurugram hotel, the body of 27-year-old Divya Pahuja was recovered from a canal in Haryana’s Fatehabad district on January 13. The body was found based on information provided by accused Balraj Gill, who along with another person, had disposed of the body. He was arrested from an airport in Kolkata on Thursday last week.

On January 2, Divya Pahuja was taken to Hotel City Point by five people and shot in the head inside room number 111 because she had allegedly been extorting money from the hotel owner, 56-year-old Abhijeet Singh, by blackmailing him with his “obscene pictures”, the Gurugram Police had said earlier.

The Tribune reported that a bullet was removed from Divya Pahuja’s head during the autopsy, while the viscera has been preserved for further investigation.

That the post-mortem was conducted by four doctors, including two women doctors, under the direction of Dr Mohan Singh. After the post-mortem was conducted, the body was handed over to Pahuja’s family. The body was taken to Gurugram, where her last rites will be conducted, the report added.

The report added that the Gurugram Police SIT investigating the murder case has sent two pistols recovered from the house of the main accused and hotel owner Abhijeet Singh and a pistol belonging to his arrested PSO Parvesh for forensic examination. The cops suspect one of the three weapons could have been used in the murder of Divya Pahuja. The weapons were recovered by the SIT following the questioning of PSO Pravesh, who is a resident of Rohtak, the report added.