Nikki was unaware of Sahil’s marriage ceremony that was fastened lengthy again.
New Delhi:
The Delhi lady whose physique was present in a fridge at a roadside restaurant on Tuesday was strangled with a knowledge cable by her live-in boyfriend, police sources mentioned at present.
Sahil Gehlot, 24, has been arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend and making an attempt to cover it, in an incident much like the Shraddha Walkar homicide case. He allegedly killed Nikki Yadav, 23, after an argument and determined to stuff her physique within the fridge on the dhaba owned by his household.
The automotive through which the homicide occurred and the fridge the place the physique was stuffed.
The automotive through which Nikki Yadav was allegedly killed has been seized, sources mentioned. He has been despatched to five-day police custody.
Sahil, a 24-year-old pharma graduate, allegedly married one other lady on the day of the homicide. Nikki obtained to know very late that Sahil was engaged to a different lady and had confronted him.
When Nikki Yadav went lacking, the police tracked down Sahil. Nikki’s neighbour had reported her lacking; her household again in Haryana’s Jhajjar did not know the place she was.
Nikki and Sahil met whereas getting ready for medical entrance exams and had been in a live-in relationship for years, the police mentioned.
Her father, Sunil Yadav, has demanded loss of life penalty for Sahil.
The incident has an eerie similarity with the Shraddha Walkar homicide case in Delhi final yr. Shraddha was allegedly murdered by her live-in accomplice Aaftab Poonawalla, who chopped her physique into a number of items and saved them in a 300-litre fridge earlier than disposing them in a forest space, police had mentioned.