Dehradun, Jan. 5 -- In a significant development in the Ankita Bhandari murder case, Uttarakhand BJP State In-charge and the party's National General Secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam has filed a case against former Jwalapur (Haridwar) MLA Suresh Rathore, actress Urmila Sanawar and multiple political parties.

Gautam has denied all allegations, calling them a "well-planned criminal conspiracy" by political rivals like Congress and AAP to tarnish his and BJPs' image.

He claimed that the "accused, under a well-planned criminal conspiracy, prepared false and fabricated audio and video clips and made them viral on social media. Through these audio-video clips, an attempt was allegedly made to tarnish his image, the Bharatiya Janata Party, and ...