Man kidnaps & kills girlfriend for demanding marriage

NEW DELHI: Pushed into a corner by hisgirlfriend, who threatened to inform his family about their relationship if herefused to marry her, a 21-year-old youth kidnapped and murdered her. For nearlya month, the girl’s family could not trace her. On Friday, the killer wasarrested.The accused, Mohammad Gulfam, is a resident of Kacchi Khajuri in northeast Delhi and the son of a businessman who owns a nickel-polishing unit at Usmanpur. The arrest was made on acomplaint filed by the girl’s mother, Alma, who said her 17-year-olddaughter had been missing since June 25.Acting on information that the girl was last seen with Gulfam, the police interrogated him, but he tried to mislead the police by giving contradicting versions. “On sustained examination, Gulfam broke down and confessed to his involvement in the kidnapping and murder,” DCP (North East) Sanjay Kumar Jain said.Gulfam confessed he had been in a relationship with the victimfor the past eight months. The duo had even made a trip to Ajmer Sharif lastmonth to offer prayers, but in the end he decided against marrying her on thepretext that she was poor. The girl’s father is a menial worker whosupports a family of eleven.Gulfam expressed his inability to marryher, but the shocked girl insisted he marry her at the earliest. When the victimlearned that Gulfam was about to get engaged to someone else, she threatened togo to his house on the day of his marriage and expose his duplicity. To avoidsuch a situation, Gulfam decided to murder her. “He allegedlybought a butcher’s knife and then coaxed the victim to accompany him toHapur where, he said, one of his maternal aunts would arrange their marriage.When they reached Simbawali in rural Ghaziabad, “he took her into asugarcane field and slit her neck with the cleaver, which he had been carryingall along. Gulfam returned to Delhi the same night,” Jainsaid.A case of murder was registered by the Ghaziabad police while acase of kidnapping was subsequently lodged in Delhi. Information provided byGulfam helped the police to recover the knife, the motorcycle used to transportthe victim to the scene of the crime and the victim’s blood-stainedclothes.