A Delhi court on Wednesday sent a man accused of killing his live-in partner to five days police custody just the same way as Shraddha Walkar was murdered by accused Aftab Poonawala.
The Nikki Yadav murder bears uncanny resemblance to the infamous Shraddha Walkar case.
The accused, Sahil Gehlot (24) killed his live-in partner, stuffed her body inside a refrigerator at his dhaba at Mitraon Village in Southwest Delhi.
The couple were in a relationship for the past few years and Nikki wanted to marry the accused. But he kept his marriage to another woman from his girlfriend which was going to be held on 10th February.
On the night of 9-10 February, when the victim confronted the accused about his marriage, he killed her using the data cable of his mobile phone in his car and then kept her body in a refrigerator at his own dhaba.
“It has also been claimed that she was threatening to implicate the man in a case if he married another woman,” a source stated.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Archana Beniwal granted the crime branch of Delhi police custody of him for five days in order to interrogate him and determine the exact scene of the murder and the route he took after committing the alleged crime.
The order was passed in response to an application filed by the police.
Police claimed they needed to take the accused to the locations where the accused visited with the deceased in their remand application. They claimed that in order to gather evidence, the investigators planned to explore locations connected to the murder.
A case has been registered at Baba Haridas Nagar police station under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence of an offence committed, or giving false information to screen offender).
