In Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, 26-year-old army Naik Harshvardhan Singh (alias Deepak Singh) allegedly murdered his 17-year-old girlfriend, Sakshi Yadav, and buried her in an orchard. Sakshi, a student living with her maternal aunt in Kusumgur village, Tharwai, had met Deepak two years prior after he paid a minor ₹15 bill for her at a store. Although Deepak promised to marry her, he secretly arranged to marry another woman on November 19. Upon discovering his impending wedding, Sakshi confronted him and demanded he marry her instead. On November 10, Deepak picked Sakshi up on a motorcycle under the pretext of eloping. In the evening, he lured her to an orchard in Tharwai, strangled her with a scarf (dupatta), stabbed her repeatedly with a knife bought three days earlier, and buried her in a shallow pit. Deepak then took her phone, deleted their messaging chats, and searched Google at 2:00 AM on how to delete chat history. After stray dogs uncovered Sakshi's body, police investigated missing person reports, tracked Deepak through CCTV footage showing him with the victim, and linked his Google search activity and home location to her phone. Under interrogation, Deepak confessed to the murder, claiming he killed her to protect his reputation and avoid police complaints after she threatened legal action.
Country: India
State/Province: Uttar Pradesh, India
City/Region: Prayagraj
Incident Type: Murder
Relationship Status: Dating
Relationship Duration: Approximately 2 years
Incident Date: Nov. 10, 2025
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Crime Tak - India · Original language: Hindi
Murder Mystery: सेना के जवान ने 17 साल की गर्लफ़्रेंड को मारकर ज़िंदा गाड़ दिया, वजह ये थी
Infidelity
The suspect engaged in an extramarital/secret romantic relationship with a minor victim while concealing an upcoming family-arranged marriage to another woman. When the victim discovered the deceit and demanded marriage or threatened exposure, the suspect used manipulative promises of elopement to lure her to an isolated location and commit premeditated murder to prevent reputational harm.
Police recovered Sakshi Yadav's body after villagers noticed stray dogs digging in an orchard near Tharwai. Although the suspect attempted to establish an alibi by leaving his primary mobile phone at home, CCTV footage captured him with Sakshi on November 10. Digital forensics on Sakshi's account revealed a Google search inquiry ('How to delete chats?') conducted at 2:00 AM post-incident from an IP/location tied to Deepak's residence, leading to his breakdown and confession.
Initially, police acted slowly on the missing person report, assuming the girl might have left voluntarily and would return. Furthermore, the suspect attempted to create a digital alibi by keeping his primary mobile phone at home while using a secondary phone during the crime.
Deepak lured Sakshi on November 10 under the pretense of eloping, picked her up near her college, spent the day with her, and brought her to an isolated orchard in Tharwai at nightfall. He strangled her with a scarf, stabbed her with a pre-purchased knife, and buried her in a shallow pit. He took her phone, deleted chats, and made a online query regarding chat deletion at 2:00 AM from his home. Traced through CCTV and digital forensics, he confessed upon interrogation.
High-risk escalation occurred when the suspect felt trapped between his pending family-arranged marriage on November 19 and the victim's insistence on legal accountability and exposure. His access to tactical planning, purchase of a weapon three days prior, and deliberate isolation of the victim created an extreme danger zone resulting in homicide.
Digital footprints, including online search histories, cloud account logs, and surrounding CCTV camera footage, remain critical in overriding staged alibis and concealed devices in homicide investigations.
Deepak began breaking promises regarding marriage after secretly agreeing to an arranged marriage scheduled for November 19 with another woman without informing Sakshi.
Stray dogs digging at an orchard drew villagers' attention to a partially exposed human hand, leading to police recovering the body and matching it to Sakshi's missing person filing.
Key evidence included CCTV footage showing Deepak riding a motorcycle with Sakshi on November 10, the recovered weapon (knife bought 3 days earlier), and Google search history for deleting chats accessed at 2:00 AM from Deepak's home location.
Villagers reported seeing stray dogs barking and digging at a specific spot in an orchard, revealing a human hand beneath the soil, which prompted them to notify the police immediately.
Follow-up digital investigation disproved Deepak's alibi of being at home, as forensic tracking of the victim's Google ID showed post-murder chat deletion searches originating from Deepak's residence at 2:00 AM.
The report does not state whether formal charges have been finalized in court or whether additional accomplices assisted in securing tools, though the suspect reportedly acted alone.