Delhi Police: Man, Who Kept Girlfriend’s Body in Fridge Wed Hours Later
The event was discovered on Valentine’s Day, and the 23-year-old woman’s body was found in the refrigerator on Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
Police claimed on Wednesday that a 24-year-old man killed his girlfriend by strangling her, putting her body in the refrigerator of his southwest Delhi dhaba (restaurant), and then leaving the same day to wed another lady.
Accused They said that Sahil Gehlot, a native of Mitraon village in southwest Delhi, had been detained.
The event was discovered on Valentine’s Day, and the 23-year-old woman’s body was found in the refrigerator on Tuesday morning, according to authorities.
According to the police, the accused concealed the knowledge that his marriage was set with another woman from his girlfriend Nikki Yadav. They claimed that Nikki and the accused got into a furious disagreement after she learned about his impending nuptials, which resulted in her death.
According to a source close to PTI, “it has been stated that she threatened to implicate the man in a case if he married another woman.”
According to authorities, the pair had been dating for a few years and Nikki had expressed a desire to wed the accused. A senior police officer claimed that on the night between February 9 and 10, when the victim confronted the suspect about his marriage, he killed her in his automobile while using the data wire of his mobile phone before storing her body at his dhaba.
According to Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav, a tip was received on February 10 that Sahil Gehlot had slain his fiancée and married another woman the same day.
The officer said that upon investigation, no case or complaint regarding the disappearance of any such woman had been discovered.
When a police team arrived in Mitraon village because the accused’s phone was discovered to be off, he was not in his home, so a thorough search of the village and its surroundings was conducted, according to the special commissioner of police, who added that the accused was later apprehended in Kair village in Delhi.
The accused originally attempted to deceive the police while being questioned, but subsequently admitted that he had slain his fiancée on the night between February 9 and 10 and put her body in a refrigerator at his dhaba, the officer added.
The officer claimed that the accused admitted to investigators about his relationship with Nikki and that in January 2018 he was attending a coaching facility in Uttam Nagar to study for the SSC exams. The victim, a Jhajjar, Haryana, resident, was studying at an Uttam Nagar institute for a medical entrance exam at the time.
Both of them used to ride the same bus to their respective institutes every day, where they met, grew close, and eventually fell in love, he claimed.
The officer claimed that the accused admitted to investigators about his relationship with Nikki and that in January 2018 he was attending a coaching facility in Uttam Nagar to study for the SSC exams. The victim, a Jhajjar, Haryana, resident, was studying at an Uttam Nagar institute for a medical entrance exam at the time.
Both of them used to ride the same bus to their respective institutes every day, where they met, grew close, and eventually fell in love, he claimed.
The accused enrolled in a Greater Noida college’s DPharma programme in February 2018, while his girlfriend enrolled in the same institution’s BA programme (English Hons.). Following that, the pair moved in together to a rented home in Greater Noida and grew quite close. He added that they also visited a number of locations, including Manali, Rishikesh, Haridwar, and Dehradoon.
“They went back to their houses during the Covid-induced lockdown, and when it was through, they resumed living together in a rented home in the Dwarka neighbourhood. The accused kept his family members in the dark about his friendship with the victim. His family had been urging him to wed another woman, and in December 2022, a date for his engagement and marriage to her was set for February 9 and February 10, respectively “explained the senior officer.
A case has been filed at the Baba Haridas Nagar police station under IPC sections 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence of an offence committed or providing false information to screen offender) and 302 (murder), and the Crime Branch is conducting the inquiry, according to the police.
According to them, the statements of the accused are being confirmed as part of the inquiry.