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CCTV footage shows victim in gym, hours before trainer kills her — Video
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CCTV footage shows victim in gym, hours before trainer kills her — Video

Four months after Ekta Gupta’s death, CCTV footage of where she was last seen has been found. The footage shows Ekta Gupta talking to her alleged killer, gym trainer Vimal Soni.

In the video, the victim can be seen getting into her workout clothes carrying a gym bag and holding her mobile phone. She appeared to argue with her trainer, after which he killed her. The recordings made it clear that Ekta Gupta was in the hall before her murder.

She was the wife of a businessman from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Gym trainer Vimal Soni, who was arrested for allegedly killing her, provided the exact location of where he buried her body. The accused coach buried the body near the residence of the district magistrate, the police said.

DCP East, Shravan Kumar Singh said, “The incident took place on June 24. The victim used to go to the accused’s gym to work out… The victim was particularly unhappy about something and had a heated argument with the accused, after which the latter killed her and buried her here.. . He dug a hole here and buried her body… He tried to mislead the case, but when I questioned him strictly, he revealed the truth.”

The police started looking for the gymnastics coach, but there had been information about Soni’s whereabouts for the past four months. But after an intense search, they found him in the city.

When the husband Rahul Gupta approached the police suspecting that Soni might have kidnapped Ekta by giving her toxic substances mixed in a protein shake. Police then scanned CCTV cameras at train stations, bus stations and hotels for them in June.

Ekta and Soni were supposedly on good terms, but when the woman came to know about Vimal’s engagement, she was upset. The two allegedly argued in his car when he hit her in the neck, killing her.