A cop is being investigated for plotting to murder Nikki Yadav with Sahil Gehlot

According to the latest revelations, Sahil Gehlot did not act alone, as previously thought. According to an unnamed official, at least four members met the main accused while he was transporting Nikki Yadav’s body to a closed family restaurant.
On February 14, Sahil Gahlot (right) was arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Nikki Yadav, 24, on February 10. (ANI)
On February 14, Sahil Gahlot (right) was arrested for allegedly murdering his girlfriend Nikki Yadav, 24, on February 10. (ANI)

Investigators said on Saturday that family members of Sahil Gehlot, who murdered his girlfriend Nikki Yadav on February 10, decided in the first week of February that the 24-year-old woman had to be killed, and that one of these people, a cousin, was a Delhi Police constable who played an active role in the conspiracy.

According to the most recent revelations, Gehlot did not act alone, as previously thought. According to an unnamed official, at least four members met the main accused while he was transporting Yadav’s body to a closed family restaurant.

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“They planned to kill her in the first week of February after learning that Yadav and Gehlot had secretly married in 2021. “The conspiracy was hatched so he could marry the other woman,” said this person, providing a possible motive for the crime, which was previously thought to have been committed on the spur of the moment.

Yadav’s murder is the latest crime committed by a woman’s partner to shock the Capital, coming months after the Shraddha Walkar case. Gehlot allegedly murdered Yadav in the parking lot of Delhi’s Nigambodh Ghat crematorium on February 10, then drove more than 40 kilometres to his family’s restaurant in north-west Delhi’s Najafgarh, where he left the body in the trunk before returning home to marry another woman later that evening. He returned to the restaurant late that night to place the body in a refrigerator.

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Police arrested Gehlot’s father, Virendra Singh, two cousins, Ashish Kumar and Naveen Kumar, and two friends, Lokesh Singh and Amar Singh, on Friday for their roles in the murder plot and tampering with evidence.

According to the official quoted above, Naveen Kumar was a constable assigned to Dwarka. “Before arresting these five suspects, we presented evidence to them. “All of them admitted to knowing about Gehlot and Yadav’s marriage and plotting to kill the woman,” said Ravindra Singh Yadav, special commissioner of police (crime).

“We have evidence that four of the accused, who are Gehlot’s friends and cousins, met him on the way while he was transporting Yadav’s body in the car. They advised Gehlot to place the body in a refrigerator at a dhaba in Mitraon village. Despite knowing about Yadav’s death, all of the accused proceeded with Gehlot’s marriage to another woman,” he added.

On October 1, 2021, the couple married at an Arya Samaj temple in Noida. According to an Arya Samaj temple official, some members of the Gehlot family approached the priest on Wednesday and attempted to tear the marriage register. However, police had yet to confirm the allegation.

“They inquired as to whether I remembered Gehlot’s marriage to Yadav. But, because I couldn’t place the marriage, I declined. When one of them asked me to show the marriage register, I realised something was wrong and informed them that the register was with the management committee. They then threatened to tear off all the pages containing records of all marriages that occurred in the last three months of 2020 and left,” he explained.

The couple had come to the temple with some friends as witnesses, according to the priest.

According to the official quoted in the first instance, Gehlot told investigators that Yadav was pressuring him to marry her in a formal ceremony after the wedding. When he told his family about it, the five accused allegedly plotted to kill Yadav, according to this person.

Police said on Friday that Gehlot told the five accused about the murder soon after strangling her with a mobile phone data cable.

On February 14, crime branch officials arrested Gehlot for allegedly killing Yadav hours before marrying another woman. According to investigators, Gehlot and Yadav were in a relationship at the time and had been living together for a few years.