New Delhi: Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal issued a notice to Delhi Police in connection with the murder case.
Earlier today, accused Sahil Gehlot has been sent to five-day Police remand for allegedly strangulating his live-in partner, Nikki Yadav to death and storing her body in a refrigerator at his dhaba at Mitraon village, police said on Tuesday.
The police said that the incident took place on the intervening night of February 9 and 10 and Sahil killed the victim and married another girl on the same day.
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- DCW Chief added, “We have requested Delhi Police to take strict actions against the accused as this is a very serious matter and provide all possible details.”
- According to sources close to ANI, “the post-mortem reports have revealed that she died because of suffocation. There were marks on her neck and no other injury marks were found on the body.”
- Delhi Police Crime Branch recovered the car inside which the accused allegedly murdered Nikki Yadav and also used it to transport her body to his dhaba.
- Accused, Sahil was apprehended from the Kair village crossing in the national capital by the police team.
- According to reports, the police confirmed that the victim was a resident of the Uttam Nagar area in the national capital.
- According to the Crime Branch unit, the accused Sahil Gehlot, 24, and the deceased Nikki Yadav were in a relationship for a few years. The police said that Sahil and Nikki used to meet while going to their respective coaching centres in Uttam Nagar and became friends and later fell in love.
- The accused did not inform his family members about this relationship.
- “His family was pressurizing him to get married with some other girl and finally in Dec. 2022, the engagement and marriage of the accused with another girl were fixed for 09.02.2023 & 10.02.2023, respectively. The accused did not inform the deceased about his engagement or marriage plans,” the police said.
- However, according to the police, Nikki came to know about the marriage and confronted the accused leading to arguments between the two.
- “The accused strangulated the deceased with the help of a data cable of his mobile phone kept in his car. Thereafter, he went to the dhaba owned by him and put her dead body in a refrigerator,” the police said.
- The police are conducting an investigation to verify the accused’s claims during interrogation.
(With Agency Inputs)
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