Nikki Yadav Murder Case: Police said they received a tip-off that something was amiss with Sahil Gehlot (24), the owner of a dhaba and that his girlfriend Nikki Yadav (22) had been missing since his wedding last week.

In the Mitraon village outside of Delhi, close to Najafgarh, the Delhi Police detained a man on Tuesday for the alleged murder and storage of his girlfriend’s body in a refrigerator, according to police. They claimed that the man had committed the crime as a result of the woman’s pressure to marry him even though his family had found him another partner. The woman had been living with him for the previous five years.

Police said the Nikki Yadav Murder Case crime came to light on Tuesday morning when they received a tip-off that something was amiss with Sahil Gehlot (24), the owner of a roadside eatery and that his girlfriend Nikki Yadav (22) had been missing since his wedding last week.

When officers called Gehlot for questioning, he confessed that he had strangled Yadav to death in the early hours of February 10 -hours before his wedding — and had stuffed her body in a refrigerator at his eatery. The eatery had shut because of his wedding functions, and Gehlot planned to dispose of the body later, police said.

Special commissioner of police (crime) Ravindra Yadav said in January 2018, Gehlot joined a coaching institute in Uttam Nagar to prepare for the Staff Selection Commission (SSC) exams. Around the same time, Yadav, who was from the Jhajjar district in Haryana, was preparing for medical entrance exams in another institute in Uttam Nagar. As they both traveled on the same bus, they became friends.

In February 2018, both took admitted to a private university in Greater Noida but in different courses. They started living together in a rented flat but during the Covid-19 lockdown. They returned to their respective homes, police said.

After lockdown restrictions lifted, the couple moved to a flat in Dwarka Sector-23, before moving to a rented flat in Uttam Nagar, police said.

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Citing Gehlot’s disclosures, a crime branch officer, on condition of anonymity, said that Gehlot had not told his family about his relationship with Yadav. After pressure from his family, he got engaged to a woman of his family’s choice on February 9 and to married the next day.

“On February 9, Yadav learned about Gehlot’s engagement ceremony. She confronted him, but after an altercation, they decided to elope. They tried to book their tickets to Goa but when they couldn’t book the air tickets, they decided to leave for Himachal Pradesh on a bus,” the officer said, citing his disclosures.

Police said the couple reached the Kashmere Gate ISBT in the early hours of February 10 in Gehlot’s cousin’s car, a Hyundai Verna, but then Gehlot developed cold feet. “Gehlot changed his mind when he started getting calls from his family members, asking him to return as quickly as possible, since the pre-wedding rituals pending and getting delayed because of his absence,” said another police officer aware of the case.

“When Yadav found that Gehlot was adamant about returning to his family. An altercation ensued and Gehlot strangled her using his cellphone’s data cable. He then put on the seat belt around her body and drove 50km,” said the second officer.

Police said that after stuffing her body in the fridge at his eatery. Gehlot returned home and later left for Jhajjar in Haryana with his wedding procession. His wedding with the other woman solemnized the same night, they said. He planned to dispose of the body after the wedding ceremony was over and his guests had returned, they said.

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