LUCKNOW: Puja Shakun Pandey, an office-bearer of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (ABHM) and the main accused in the murder of a businessman in Uttar Pradesh’s Aligarh on September 26, was arrested from Bharatpur in Rajasthan on Saturday.

Abhishek Gupta, a 25-year-old two-wheeler showroom owner, was gunned down by two assailants in Aligarh’s Roravar area while he was boarding a bus to Hathras. Puja Shakun Pandey and her husband, ABHM spokesperson Ashok Pandey, allegedly hired the two shooters — Mohd Fazal and Asif — to kill Gupta.

A case against Puja and her husband was registered the same night at the Roravar police station.

According to Aligarh Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun, Puja was arrested from Bharatpur late Friday night. “Abhishek’s family claimed she

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