Sahil Gehlot danced and enjoyed with his friends at his engagement form on February 9 and latterly strangled his live- in mate and stuffed her body inside a refrigerator following an heated argument, police claimed on Wednesday. The following day, Gehlot, 24, he got married, they said.
Nikki Yadav was allegedly strangled to death by Gehlot who stuffed her body inside a refrigerator of his dhaba( café ) in southwest Delhi.
The crime came to light only on February 14 when the body of 23- time-old Nikki Yadav was recovered from the refrigerator following Gehlot’s questioning, police claimed. Police said after the engagement party, Gehlot had gone to Yadav’s rented house in Uttam Nagar.
During his stay there, Yadav had allegedly managed to move Gehlot to go on a short trip before his marriage on February 10, they said.
A elderly officer said during the alternate day of interrogation, Gehlot told the police that he was in” double mind” and couldn’t take a decision on whether he wanted to go ahead with his live- in mate or marry the woman his parents had arranged for him.
chronicling the sequence of event, the indicted told police that he’d left Yadav’s hearthstone around 15 days before the incident but after his engagement on February 9, he visited her house in Uttam Nagar and he spent the night there with her, he said.
” Yadav had formerly made plans that she wanted to go to Goa with him and had formerly reserved her tickets but when she tried reserving Gehlot’s ticket through a trip operation, his ticket couldn’t be reserved. So they changed the plan and decided to visit Himachal Pradesh.
” They went to Nizamuddin road station in his auto where they set up out that they will have to board a machine from Anand Vihar machine Terminus but on reaching there, they were informed that the machine will start from the Kashmere Gate ISBT,” the officer said.
After reaching Kashmere Gate, the indicted situated his auto and both of them started having a discussion about his listed marriage, police said.
During questioning, Gehlot told police that during their discussion, Yadav showed her displeasure over his engagement and that he was about to marry another woman. She prompted him to go on a trip with her to Himachal Pradesh. Gehlot was in double mind since he was also under pressure from his family to marry the woman they had fixed his marriage with.
” His marriage plan made her angry and she showed her displeasure. rankled, Gehlot strangled her and took her body to his dabha in vill,” the officer said.
Police suspect that he wanted to get relieve of his live- in- mate and was trying to mislead her by assuring her that they would go for a trip, officers said.
” He said he was in double mind. These are all his interpretation because through original enquiries, we came to know that he was dancing and having fun during his engagement. So, it’s important to corroborate his interpretation with strong substantiation including CCTVs, specialized substantiation along with forensic examination to make this a strong case. The exact time when he killed her has not been revealed by him yet,” the officer said.
Yadav’s body was recovered on Tuesday morning from the refrigerator at the café , four days after the murder.
