NEW DELHI: Sahil Gehlot, accused of killing his live-in partner Nikki Yadav, was taken to the crime scene in Kashmiri Gate by Delhi Police on Thursday.

Gehlot had allegedly strangled Yadav (23) in a car in north Delhi's Kashmiri Gate area.

1/12Love, murder and marriage, all in one day: Nikki Yadav's killing shocks DelhiPreviousNextShow Captions<p>A man strangled his live-in partner with a mobile phone cable and dumped her body in a refrigerator at a dhaba in west Delhi.</p><p>The accused reportedly got married to another woman later that day.</p><p>Police said they recovered the body of the woman from the fridge and the data cable from his car.<br /></p><p>Nikki knew Sahil since 2018.

Cops said the two were in a live-in relationship.<br /></p><p>In December 2022, Sahil’s marriage was fixed with another woman and Nikki was putting pressure on him to break it off</p><p>After his engagement on February 9, Sahil reached Delhi and told Nikki that the news of his marriage was false.

</p><p>Sahil then asked her to accompany him on a vacation to Himachal Pradesh or some other location</p><p>On the intervening night of Feb 9 and 10 the couple had a heated arguement after which the accused strangled her with a phone data cable.</p><p>Sahil, who was to get married in the evening, then kept her body inside the fridge at his dhaba and left<br /></p><p>Nikki’s father Sunil Yadav, who runs a motor repairs business in Gurgaon, could not reach his daughter on phone since Saturday morning.<br /></p><p>Sahil told Nikki's father that she had gone to Dehradun and Mussoorie for a vacation<br /></p>According to sources, the police are reviewing the CCTV footage in the area and have called in Ashish, Gehlot's brother, for questioning.

It is alleged that Yadav was strangled with a data cable in Ashish's car by Gehlot.

Police will also take Gehlot to Nizamuddin and Anand Vihar railway stations, where he had taken Yadav in the car the day he killed him.

The complete sequence is being connected so that the exact place and time of Nikki's murder can be known, sources said.

After he killed her, as is alleged, Gehlot stuffed the woman's body inside a refrigerator at his dhaba in southwest Delhi and went to his wedding the same day.

Delhi: Man kills girlfriend, stuffs her body inside refrigerator of his restaurant The incident came to light on February 14, Valentine's Day, four days after the fact, when Gehlot under police custody confessed to the crime and led police to the fridge in his eatery where he hid the body.

The post mortem 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.

She had no other injury marks on her body, besides the strangulation marks.

According to police, Gehlot had concealed from Yadav that he was engaged to marry some other woman, and when the detail came out, the two had a row which culminated in Gehlot killing the woman.(With inputs from PTI)