Faridabad: Stalker enters house, tortures girl to death

BALLABHGARH: In a ghastly crime that has sent shockwaves across this NCR town, a stalker allegedly entered the house of an 18-year-old girl preparing for medical entrance exams, tortured her for at least three hours — including attempting to sexually assault her — before battering the girl to death with cooking utensils and mutilating the body with a hot knife.
The girl’s parents, both teachers, and brother were at school when the killer struck last Friday. The 21-year-old accused, who lived a few houses away, was arrested on Sunday from Rewari. He has confessed to the crime, police said.
“Nisha's (name changed) mother cooked her favourite dishes before leaving for school and returned to find her brutally killed with the same utensils she had used to cook those dishes,” said the girl’s father, gasping for breath.
Father’s sorrow: Couldn’t save her from ‘monsters’
Nisha’s family held a candlelight march in her memory and plan to do it again on Saturday. They said that the march was attended by more than 300 women of all ages. “The women here are traumatised. If a girl is not safe at home, where else do we leave her?” asked Nisha’s father.
When TOI met the family on Wednesday, the grieving mother lay on her daughter’s bed, tightly clutching her photo close to her chest and weeping.
Nisha’s father said the image of his dead daughter will haunt him for the rest of his life for he was unable to save her from “monsters” in society.
The murder was discovered by Nisha’s brother when he returned from school. “It had been two months since she started staying alone at home when my wife and I went to our schools to teach and our son to study. We usually returned around 2.45-3pm. On Friday, my phone rang around 2.50pm. It was my neighbour. What followed was a nightmare,” said the girl’s father.
“Your son is frantically running on the streets and crying profusely. He is not telling us what has happened. Your daughter is nowhere around,” he recalled the neighbour saying.
“My heart sank and I knew something was terribly wrong but hadn’t expected it to be something that would change my life. When I reached home, I saw my son crying loudly, pointing towards the staircase. I rushed up to the first floor and saw blood splashed on the walls. I cannot begin to tell how petrified I was. With my heart in my mouth, I stepped into my daughter’s room and saw blood oozing out of her body,” he said.
Nisha’s father froze at the sight. When he recovered, he called up his wife and informed the police. “Within a few minutes, our house was swarming with policemen and neighbours. I was worried about my wife. She was closer to her than any of us. I don’t think she will ever be able to lead a normal life again,” the father said.
“The accused had sneaked into the house and kept trying to force her to be friends with him. When she refused, he overpowered her and attempted to rape her,” said Yogvender Singh Dhillon, SHO of Faridabad sector 7 police station.
“When she managed to kick him away, he felt threatened and thought the girl would complain against him if she lived. The girl battled him for quite some time but finally succumbed. He brutally killed her and escaped to Rewari, from where our team managed to nab him. He fled the house with the utensils and weapons he had used to kill the girl and later threw these in a nearby drain, from where we have recovered the items,” said Dhillon.
Police said the youth got into the house at 10.30am. “He finally killed her by grabbing her by the hair and banging her head against the wall several times before battering her with a bat, a belan (rolling pin) and tawa (heavy pan for making chapatis),” the SHO said.
To be doubly sure that the girl was not “pretending to be dead”, the stalker rushed back to the kitchen, picked up the biggest knife kept there and burnt it well, police said. He then took it to the room where the girl lay and burnt her across the body, including the private parts, to see if she winced in pain.
When she did not move, he exited the house but lurked around in the neighbourhood for the next half-an-hour to see if anyone came to the house. The blood on his clothes could not be easily spotted because he wore a black t-shirt and black pants, police said.
Nisha’s family said that despite such a brutal murder being reported from an upmarket locality in Ballabgarh, no politician had visited them so far nor had anyone called to console them.