Hours after killing Nikki, Sahil Gehlot deleted data from both their phones: Delhi Police

Ravindra Singh Yadav, special commissioner of police (crime), said the accused confessed during questioning that Nikki wanted to marry him but his family had fixed his marriage with someone else. When she found out about this, he took her to Kashmere Gate where he allegedly strangled her to death inside his car and then drove for 2-3 hours before dumping the body in a fridge.

“We recovered two phones from his possession. We wanted to check chats and photos along with call detail records but he managed to delete all the data from both phones after the murder. He is trying to hide their calls and messages. We will send the phone to the forensic lab to recover data from the phone,” a police source said.

Gehlot has been sent to five-day police custody to ascertain the sequence of events and get more details.