NEW DELHI: On Monday, a Delhi court ordered that the primary suspect in the murder cases of Nikki Yadav and five other people be held in judicial custody for a period of 14 days.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Archana Beniwal had sent Gehlot to a 12-day judicial custody on February 22. Police cited four new offences under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
According to Gehlot's attorney D.S. Kumar, the police have now cited Sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 34 (common intention), 202 (intentional omission to give information of offence by person bound to inform), and 212 even though the FIR was originally filed under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence or providing false information to screen offender) of the IPC (harbouring offender).
On February 20, Dwarka court Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samiksha Gupta sentenced five co-accused to 14 days in judicial detention.
On February 10, Gehlot allegedly strangled 23-year-old Yadav near the Kashmiri Gate and married a different woman the same day.
On February 14, Yadav's body was discovered in a refrigerator in a dhaba run by Gehlot in the village of Mitraon outside of Delhi.
Gehlot's father Virender Singh, cousins Naveen (a Delhi Police policeman) and Ashish, as well as pals Lokesh and Amar, are charged with orchestrating a plot to get rid of Yadav so that he could proceed with his marriage to a different woman.
Gehlot was quizzed extensively while in police custody, according to a senior police official, and revealed that Yadav was attempting to prevent him from marrying someone else because they had previously been legally wed in 2020.
She was pleading with him not to proceed with the February 10 wedding that his family had planned with a different girl. However, Gehlot planned to get rid of the victim from their path along with his father, two cousins, and two pals, the officer had stated.
"He carried out the plan, killed her, told the other co-accused about it the same day, and they all went through with the wedding."
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