Overview
- Police in Dehradun and Haridwar registered cases naming former MLA Suresh Rathore and actor Urmila Sanawar over circulating audio and video clips that allege a link to BJP leader Dushyant Kumar Gautam.
- The Dehradun FIR cites Section 67 of the IT Act and multiple Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita provisions, with a parallel Haridwar FIR filed on separate BNS sections after complaints by Aarti Gaur and Dharmendra Kumar.
- Gautam denies the allegation, has asked the state home secretary to order takedowns of what he calls fabricated content, signaled legal action, and said he will retire from public life if the claim is proved.
- Rathore has sought distance from the claim, asserting the clips are AI‑generated, and he was earlier expelled from the BJP for six years.
- Ankita Bhandari was murdered in 2022, resort owner Pulkit Arya is serving a life term, and unresolved questions persist over a referenced ‘VIP,’ the demolished resort crime scene, and Ankita’s missing phone.