Delhi Police arrested a man for allegedly killing his 22-year-old live-in partner and storing her body in a fridge in a dhaba in Delhi’s Najafgarh.

Delhi Police statements

According to the police, the deceased has been identified as Nikki Yadav. She was strangulated to death by her boyfriend, 24-year-old Sahil Gehlot, near Kashmiri Gate ISBT on the intervening night of Feb 9 and Feb 10. The accused allegedly used the data cable of his mobile in his car to strangulate the woman, the police said.

After killing his girlfriend Nikki, Sahil hid her body in the fridge of a dhaba owned by him, located on the outskirts of Mitraon village.

On Tuesday, he was arrested after the police found the woman’s body inside the fridge at the dhaba.

As per the investigation by police, Sahil and Nikki were in a relationship. Sahil, a resident of Mitraon village, met Nikki, a resident of Haryana’s Jhajjar, in 2018 while they were preparing for competitive exams in the Uttam Nagar area. Later, they took admitted to the same college in Greater Noida.

The couple started living together in Greater Noida in a rented house. During the Covid lockdown, they returned to their respective homes and after the end of the lockdown, they again started living together in a rented house in the Dwarka area.

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Main reason behind this heinous crime

The investigation also revealed that the accused had not informed his family members about his relationship. Sahil’s family was pressurising him to get married to some other woman and finalised his marriage date for February 10. When Nikki got to know about it, she confronted Sahil and an argument started between the duos. Sahil strangulated Nikki with the help of a data cable of his mobile phone kept in his car said Delhi police.

After that, he went to his dhaba and put her dead body in a fridge. The dhaba is situated on a vacant plot on the outskirts of Mitraon village. He then went to his home and solemnised his marriage to another woman.

Similarities with Shraddha murder case

This recent case closely resembles the Shraddha Walkar murder case, where a 27-year-old woman was strangulated by her live-in partner, Aaftab Amin Poonawala. He later chopped her body into 35 pieces and stored it in a 300-litre refrigerator before throwing its parts in a Delhi forest.

Shraddha Walkar’s murder shook the nation after the Delhi Police arrested Aaftab on November 12, 20232. The autopsy report of the bones of Shraddha Walkar revealed that her body was chopped into 35 pieces with a saw-like object.

Moreover, Aaftab, in his confession, told police that the couple had been at odds since moving to Delhi and he killed her after an argument.