New Delhi: The father of a 23-year-old girl murdered in southwest Delhi wants the perpetrator to be hanged to death.
Sunil Yadav, father of deceased Nikki Yadav, has said that his daughter last visited home in Haryana’s Jhajjar one and a half months ago. He came to know of her death on Tuesday.
The police have arrested accused Sahil Gehlot, 24, who allegedly strangled Nikki when she tried to confront him about his impending marriage to another girl.
He then stuffed her body in a freezer in his “dhaba” in southwest Delhi and went off to marry the other girl the same day.
This happened on the intervening night of 9 and 10 February.
On 10 February, the police were anonymously tipped off about the murder, but found no missing complaint filed about Nikki, Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav said.
Officers then called on Gehlot’s number and found it to be switched off. When the team arrived at Mitraon village, Gehlot had already fled the area. After an intensive search, the police smoked him out of Kair village.
Gehlot then told the police where he had hid Nikki’s body, which was recovered from the freezer on Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday, the Delhi Police’s crime branch found the car in which Gehlot allegedly murdered Nikki, and also used it to transport her body to his eatery.
He killed her using the data cable of his mobile phone kept in his car, the police said.
The couple met in 2018 as students, and had even lived together in Delhi, officials said.
A case under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of an offence committed, or giving false information to screen offender) has been registered at the Baba Haridas Nagar police station.
The police on Wednesday took Nikki’s body for postmortem to the Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital. Father Sunil Yadav said, “The postmortem will take time. They didn’t tell us anything, just showed (her body) that this is her.”
Special Commissioner Ravindra Yadav has said the murder was detected in the nick of time. “After his marriage, Gehlot could have disposed of the body. Then it would have been a difficult process – to collect and match DNA, gather witnesses, the trial would have also run for a long time,” he said.
The recovered body was enough to get a conviction, Yadav said. The senior officer also said teams were looking at CCTV footage which can give more clues into what happened after the murder.
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