Nikki Yadav murder case: CCTV footage shows slain Delhi girl hours before being strangled to death by boyfriend | WATCH
The last visuals of 23-year-old Nikki Yadav have emerged via CCTV footage, hours before she was reportedly strangled to death by her boyfriend Sahil Gehlot who then hid her body inside a fridge for three days.
Nikki, a resident of Uttam Nagar in south-west Delhi, was strangled with a USB cable by her boyfriend on the intervening night of February 9-10. The security footage dated February 9, shows the young woman entering her home while a second clip from another CCTV shows her walking up the stairs, hours before she was murdered.
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As per the police, the body of the victim was recovered on Tuesday from inside the fridge at a Dhaba in Najafgarh area of southwest Delhi.
Giving details, the official said that the accused, identified as 24-year-old Sahil Gehlot—a resident Mitraon village– was in a relationship with the victim Nikki Yadav, and the two were living together in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar. However, he was engaged to be married to another woman.
Police said that Sahil and Nikki had met while preparing for medical entrance exams and were in a live-in relationship for years.
The official said the victim, Sahil Gehlot’s girlfriend, came to know about his fiancée, confronted him and insisted that he marry her instead. This led to a heated argument between the lovers and an irate Gehlot killed his girlfriend and hid her body inside the freezer at a Dhaba owned by his family.
According to reports, the accused called the victim to meet him near Kashmere Gate ISBT on the intervening night of February 9-10, ISBT where he strangled her to death in his car with a charger cable and later took the body back to his dhaba and dumped it in the fridge, where it remained for three days.
Sahil Gehlot, a pharma graduate, reportedly married another woman on the same day that he murdered Nikki Yadav.
According to reports, Nikki’s neighbour reported her missing when the victim’s family in Haryana’s Jhajjar contacted her about their daughter’s whereabouts, and this led the police to track down Sahil, who then led them reportedly confessed to the murder and led them to the body.
A senior official said that car in which the murder took place has been seized and the accused Sahil has been sent to five-day police custody.
The victim’s father, Sunil Yadav, has demanded death penalty for Sahil.
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