Another shocking incident surfaces in Delhi where a 23-year-old woman Nikki Yadav got murdered by her live-in boyfriend Sahil Gehlot. The gruesome murder was carried out in a similar fashion to Shradha Walkar’s murder by Aftab Poonawala last year on 18 May 2022. The rise of such incidents has threatened women’s safety in live-in relationships and questions the systemic void that needs to flare up to rescue women.

Rekha Sharma, the chairperson of National Commission for Women said that women are ‘not safe’ in a live-in relationship and that families hold a responsibility in such relationships. Her statement has come as a response to the recent case where Sahil Gehlot strangulated his live-in partner with a charger and went ahead to get married the same day.