A Baby Sold And A Baby Slaughtered: Chilling Details Tumble Out In Majnu Ka Tila Double Murder
Shocking new details have emerged in the Majnu Ka Tila double murder case that rattled Delhi earlier this week. Investigations have revealed a dark and disturbing backstory involving 22-year-old Sonal Arya and a six-month-old girl, both found brutally murdered on Tuesday afternoon.
According to the police, the accused Nikhil, and Sonal had met in Haldwani in 2023 and entered into a relationship. After Sonal became pregnant, the couple allegedly sold their newborn daughter for Rs 2 lakh in Uttarakhand. They later began living together in Wazirabad.
However, tensions arose when Nikhil discovered conversations and chats between Sonal and his friend Durgesh on her phone, leading him to suspect an affair.
Later, Sonal became pregnant again. Nikhil asked her to keep the baby, get married, and live together. However, Sonal refused and chose to have an abortion. Nikhil suspected that she had gone through with it with the help of Durgesh, which led to frequent arguments between the two. Eventually, they started living separately.
One the day of the incident, Nikhil went to Durgesh's house looking for Sonal and found her there. A heated argument broke out between Nikhil and Sonal, during which he attacked her with a surgical blade, slitting her throat. Durgesh's newborn daughter was also present at the time. Believing Durgesh was responsible for the abortion, Nikhil killed the infant in the same manner before fleeing the scene.
Police received information about the double murder on Tuesday afternoon in Delhi's Majnu Ka Tila area. According to officials, the woman who reported the incident lived at the location with her husband and two daughters. Police added that Nikhil and Sonal had ongoing disputes, and he had separated from her prior to the incident.
Local police, along with Special Staff Inspector Rohit Saraswat and his team, were dispatched to Uttarakhand in search of the accused. Acting on information gathered from the interrogation of Nikhil's father, brother, and friends, a team was sent to Haldwani. Technical surveillance of Nikhil's phone numbers revealed frequent contact with individuals in Uttarakhand.
During the search, police questioned one of his acquaintances in Haldwani and learned that Nikhil was planning to flee to Nepal via the Banbasa border near Tanakpur. Acting swiftly, the team laid a trap and apprehended him before he could escape.
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