The district sessions court in Faridabad today (24 March) convicted prime accused Tauseef and his friend Rehan for the murder of 21-year old Nikita Tomar.
Tomar, who had refused Tauseef’s demands of converting to Islam and marrying him, was murdered in broad daylight. The murder was recorded on CCTV footage had sent shockwaves throughout the country.
The defence lawyers had earlier submitted that Tauseef was not present at the scene of the crime when Nikita was killed.
The Faridabad fast track court convicted Tauseef and his friend Rehan for killing the 21-year-old Hindu girl on October 26, 2020. The quantum of sentence for the convicts will be pronounced on Friday.
However, the court acquitted the third accused, Azruddin, who had supplied the gun that was used in the murder.
Just in: Tausif and his friend Rehan convicted for murdering #NikitaTomar. Quantam of sentence on 26 March.
— Swati Goel Sharma (@swati_gs) March 24, 2021
“Shot dead by Tausif in broad daylight for refusing to convert and marry him” – banner at Nikita’s house after her killing in October, 2020 pic.twitter.com/HRcigVaU3f
Few months prior to her murder, Tomar had filed a molestation complaint against Tauseef. The family had later dropped the case. Her family had alleged that Tauseef started hounding her again and pressuring her to convert to Islam.
It has been reported that Tauseef is the grandson of Kabir Ahmed, a Congress leader who was elected as an MLA from Haryana’s Nuh constituency in 1975 and from the Tauru constituency in 1982. Also, Tauseef’s late uncle Khurshid Ahmad was a Congress MP of Haryana and was an ex-Cabinet minister of Haryana.
The case attracted a lot of attention because the killer belonged to a very powerful and influential family and it was also a case of Love Jihad. Nikita, who had rebuffed Tauseef’s advances for a long time, was being pressured to convert to Islam which led to her death.
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