A month after a 21-year-old fashion content creator and Delhi University student was allegedly killed by a man she had previously been in a relationship with in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar, police have filed a more than 350-page charge sheet saying that the accused had planned to kill her and a friend of his had “helped” him trace the victim’s residence and then harboured him after he had killed her.
The document, filed in filed in Tis Hazari Court, further states that Singh also helped Khan escape and allegedly harboured him later.
The charge sheet, filed on Saturday and seen by HT, said that Khan’s friend, identified by police as one Digvijay Singh “helped Khan locate” Sharma’s house on the day of the incident and “waited” in the area as Khan committed the murder. Singh has also worked in gyms in west Delhi, said the police. Police said both men are in judicial custody.
On August 26, while the victim, Muskan Sharma, was alone at home in Old Mahavir Nagar, 27-year-old Imran Khan came to see her.
The two have been booked under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections 103 (1) (murder) and 249 (a) (harbouring or concealing a person who has committed an offence punishable with death).
Giving details into the motive behind the murder, police in the charge sheet said, Khan had been “forcing” Sharma to be in a relationship with him but “she had refused”.
HT had reported at the time that, according to a preliminary investigation, Muskan and Imran had known each other for two years and had been dating for nearly one-and-a-half years. She used to go to the local gym where Imran had been employed.
