Sahil Was With Nikki On Feb 9, Killed Her Later, Deleted WhatsApp Chats: Report

Accused Sahil Gehlot deleted all the data including WhatsApp chats between them on his partner Nikki Yadav’s phone

Nikki Yadav was killed and her body was kept in a fridge in a Delhi dhaba ( Image Source :ABP News )

New Delhi: Nikki Yadav was with her boyfriend Sahil Gehlot on February 9 and they both roamed around for hours after which her partner killed her on the intervening night of February 9 and 10, revealed the accused, reported news agency ANI citing its sources. Gehlot killed his girlfriend in a parking lot near Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat between 8:30 and 9 am on February 10, the report added. 

The 23-year-old woman was allegedly strangled to death by her 24-year-old boyfriend Sahil Gehlot who stuffed her body inside a refrigerator of his dhaba (eatery) in southwest Delhi and went off to marry another woman the same day, according to the police.

The accused had deleted all the data including WhatsApp chats between them on Yadav’s phone, the report stated, adding that Delhi Police Crime Branch was examining CCTV footage of Uttam Nagar-Nizamuddin-Kashmere Gate.

Police have questioned a few people living near Yadav's rented accommodation in Uttam Nagar, it added. 

The incident came to light on Valentine’s Day on February 14 and it was on the instance of the accused that Yadav's body was recovered on Tuesday morning from the refrigerator at the eatery, four days after the murder.

The postmortem of Yadav's body went on for over two hours on Wednesday at Deen Dayal Upadhyay hospital here, and according to the preliminary opinion of doctors, the cause of death was strangulation, police said.

Police on Wednesday retrieved footage from a CCTV camera installed at Nikki Yadav's Uttam Nagar house and it showed the 23-year-old performing menial tasks, hours before she was killed allegedly by her boyfriend.

The footage was from February 9, the day of her boyfriend Sahil Gehlot's engagement. Yadav allegedly called to meet Gehlot and expressed her displeasure at his decision to get married.