Before Killing Live-in Partner, Sahil Gehlot Celebrated His Engagement Party

GG News Bureau

New Delhi, 16th Feb. Sahil Gehlot danced and enjoyed himself with his friends at his engagement ceremony on February 9 before strangling his live-in partner and stuffing her body inside a refrigerator after an argument, said police on Wednesday.

They said Gehlot, 24, married the next day.

Nikki Yadav was allegedly strangled to death by Gehlot, who then stuffed her body inside a refrigerator in his south west Delhi dhaba (restaurant).

According to police, the crime was only found on February 14 when the body of Nikki Yadav, 23, was recovered from the refrigerator following Gehlot’s questioning. According to police, Gehlot went to Yadav’s rented house in Uttam Nagar after the engagement party.

During his stay, Yadav allegedly persuaded Gehlot to take a short trip before his wedding on February 10, according to reports.

A senior officer said during the second day of interrogation, Gehlot told the police that he was in “double mind” and could not take a decision on whether he wanted to go ahead with his live-in partner or marry the woman his parents had arranged for him.

Narrating the sequence of events, the accused told police that he had left Yadav’s residence 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 already made plans that she wanted to go to Goa with him and had already booked her tickets but when she tried booking Gehlot’s ticket through a travel application, his ticket could not be booked. So they changed the plan and decided to visit Himachal Pradesh.

“They went to Nizamuddin railway station in his car where they found out that they will have to board a bus from Anand Vihar bus Terminus but on reaching there, they were informed that the bus will start from the Kashmere Gate ISBT,” the officer said.

After reaching Kashmere Gate, the accused parked his car and both of them started having a conversation about his scheduled wedding, police said.

During questioning, Gehlot told police that during their conversation, Yadav showed her displeasure over his engagement and that he was about to marry another woman. She urged 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 wedding plan made her angry and she showed her displeasure. Infuriated, Gehlot strangled her and took her body to his dhaba in the village,” the officer said.

Police suspect that he wanted to get rid of his live-in-partner and was trying to mislead her by assuring her that they would go for a trip, officials said.

“He said he was in double mind. These are all his versions because through local enquiries, we came to know that he was dancing and having fun during his engagement. So, it is important to corroborate his version with strong evidence including CCTVs, technical evidence 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.

Four days after the murder, Yadav’s body was discovered in the restaurant’s refrigerator on Tuesday morning.