Nikita Tomar Murder Case: Why Her Killer Thought He Would ‘Teach Her A Lesson’

Amid national outrage over the Ballabhgarh murder case and the growing clamour for justice for the victim, it has come to light why the main accused Tauseef killed the 19-year-old college student in Faridabad on Monday.?

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Tauseef, the main accused who along with his friend Rehan, was arrested from Mewat by the Haryana Police SIT, has reportedly told the investigators that he killed Nikita Tomar as he "wanted to teach her a lesson." He?had been pressuring the woman, Nikita, for a meeting and she kept turning him down.?

During interrogation, Tauseef told police he used to like Nikita from school days and wanted to marry her. But she didn't take his calls or respond to his messages and that's when he decided to "teach her a lesson."?

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With no option left, Tauseef shot her dead as she came out of her college on Monday after taking her exams, the accused told the police. Tauseef had come prepared along with his friend to abduct Nikita like he had allegedly done in 2018. The gun he used to shoot her was taken from one of his distant relatives, who has a criminal background and came out of jail a few weeks ago, police said.?

Two days before the incident, he?visited the college in a bid to meet her but failed to do so.?Police said CCTV footage from last week captured him at the?institute talking to some students who are yet to be identified.?

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Sources in Faridabad police have said that they are scanning call records of Nikita's phone.?Police are also probing her family’s allegations that Tauseef and his family had been pressuring her to convert to Islam and marry him. These charges were again levelled by the victim's father, Mool Chand Tomar, on Thursday.

Her mother told reporters at her residence on Wednesday that the main accused had harassed her daughter two years ago and pressured her to convert to Islam in order to marry him, which she had refused to do. The victim's family had lodged a police complaint against the main accused two years ago for allegedly harassing her. However, the complaint was withdrawn as the accused's relatives had assured the victim's family members that Tauseef would mend his ways and not harass the woman.?

Till now, no charges on religious conversion have been invoked in the FIR. “Sections can be added and removed during the course of investigation,” an officer said.