New Delhi: In a cold-blooded crime, a Delhi man murdered his girlfriend after an argument over his impending marriage to a different lady, stuffed her physique in a fridge at his dhaba, and went on along with his marriage ceremony the identical day, police stated on Tuesday.

Accused Sahil Gehlot was arrested after the physique of a lady, a resident of Haryana’s Jhajjar, was discovered inside a fridge at a dhaba, owned by him, on the outskirts of village Mitraon in Delhi.

As per sources, the homicide was dedicated close to the Kashmiri Gate space and Gehlot then drove with the useless physique all the way in which to his dhaba – a distance of round 36 km.

Police, nevertheless, stated that the matter is underneath investigation and the whole lot will likely be cleared as soon as the probe is over.

According to police, on February 10, an enter was obtained that an individual named Sahil Gehlot had killed his girlfriend and married one other lady on the day of homicide.

“A police team was formed and on checking, no case or complaint about any missing girl was found reported. The team reached Mitraon village in search of the accused Gehlot, but his mobile phone was found switched off and he was not present in his house. Intensive search was made in the village and nearby area,” Special Commissioner of Police, Crime, Ravindra Singh Yadav stated.

However, Gehlot was nabbed by police from Kair village crossing.

“On interrogation, initially, the accused tried to mislead the police. But on sustained interrogation, he disclosed that he had killed his girlfriend, Nikki Yadav, in the intervening night of February 9 and 10 Feb and kept her dead body in a refrigerator at his dhaba in a vacant plot situated on the outskirts of village Mitraon,” Yadav stated.

Sahil Gehlot additional disclosed that in 2018, he met the lady at a training centre in Uttam Nagar space of west Delhi the place he had joined to organize for SSC exams.

“At that time, Nikki was also preparing for a medical entrance examination in Akash Institute at Uttam Nagar. Both used to travel to their respective institutes daily in the same bus, and they became friends, and later on fell in love,” stated the Special CP.

“The duo started meeting before and after the coaching classes. In February 2018 the accused took admission in D. Pharma in Galgotia College at Greater Noida and she also took admission in the same college in BA (English Hons.). Thereafter, both of them started living together at Greater Noida in a rented house. They became very close to each other and also travelled to several places such as Manali, Rishikesh, Haridwar, Dehradun etc,” stated the official.

However, throughout Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, they returned to their properties and after the tip of the lockdown, they once more began dwelling collectively in a rented home in Dwarka space.

“The accused did not inform his family members about this relationship. His family was putting pressure on him to get married with some other girl and finally in December 2022, engagement and marriage of the accused with another girl were fixed for February 9 and 10,” the Special CP stated.

Gehlot didn’t inform Nikki about his engagement or marriage plans. “Somehow she came to know about this and confronted the accused and arguments started 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,” he stated, including that Gehlot then went again to his residence and solemnised his marriage with one other lady.

“The dead body of Nikki was recovered from the fridge at the instance of the accused. A case under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code has been registered and the version disclosed by the accused is being verified during investigation,” stated the official.

(IANS)