On 24 March, the district sessions court in Faridabad convicted Tauseef and his friend Rehan for the murder of 21-year old Nikita Tomar. Today (26 March) the court sentenced them to life imprisonment.
21-year-old Nikita was shot dead in Balabhgarh last year on October 26 by Tauseef, who ― in a case of Love Jihad ― had been pressuring her to convert to Islam and marry him.
BREAKING: Life sentence for Nikita Tomar’s murderers Tauseef & Rehan. She was killed in October last year by her stalker in Delhi suburb Faridabad (Haryana), the incident caught on CCTV. pic.twitter.com/HvBVrQYOP0
— Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) March 26, 2021
The entire incident was captured on CCTV camera and the video footage was widely shared on social media, with the barbarity and alacrity of the shooter sending shockwaves across the country. The defence had even tried to convince the court that Tauseef was not present at the scene when Nikita was shot and killed.
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
This case was fast-tracked to prevent a delay in justice being delivered. was not delayed as both these young men will now spend 20 years in prison.
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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