Overview
- Sanawar and former MLA Suresh Rathore gave voluntary consent to proposed narco-analysis and polygraph examinations before a special CBI court between October 23 and October 25 as part of the renewed CBI probe.
- Haridwar police arrested Sanawar in Saharanpur after Deepika Rathore, Suresh Rathore’s daughter, filed an FIR accusing her of demanding ₹5 crore, seeking transfer of property, issuing death threats, and posting defamatory social-media content.
- Police say they recovered the mobile phone allegedly used to make the threats and recorded multiple prior complaints against Sanawar across Saharanpur, Dehradun, Ranipur and Haridwar.
- The CBI is separately examining the authenticity and evidentiary value of audio clips Sanawar released last year that allege a politically connected ‘VIP’ in the Ankita Bhandari murder, while the Supreme Court has ruled narco and polygraph results cannot alone convict someone.
- The case revives political and legal fallout from the 2022 murder — three men were convicted and jailed in May 2025 — and could affect ongoing defamation litigation and public pressure over the allegations named against senior BJP leader Dushyant Gautam.