Murder of Nikita Tomar

Nikita Tomar, a 20-year-old Indian student, was shot dead by Tausif and his friend Rehman outside her college in the town of Ballabhgarh in Faridabad district, Haryana, on 26 October 2020.

[1][5] On 26 October 2020, Tomar was standing outside Aggarwal College with two friends, after writing an exam, and waiting for her brother to pick her up.

[6] Eleven days after the incident, the Faridabad police filed a chargesheet in a district court, charging Tausif as well another man, Rehman, of the offences of criminal conspiracy, murder, abduction with intention to compel marriage and abduction with intent to murder, as well as for offences for illegally possessing firearms under the Arms Act, and listing digital and forensic evidence in addition to several eyewitnesses.

[10] As per media reports, Tausif confessed to the police after the arrest that he shot Nikita Tomar but retracted his statement later mentioning they have been implicated for the act they did not commit or even not physically present.

[21] Karni Sena claimed that Tomar's death was part of a planned program of forced religious conversions by Muslim men against Hindu women also known as "love jihad.

[23][24][25][26] The Uttar Pradesh police stated that persons participating in the protest had been organizing the event on Whatsapp groups on which they had been sharing "... inflammatory messages that instigated violence.

[28] Haryana's Home Minister Anil Vij announced that the state would be enacting a 'love jihad' law following the incident.

[30] The Chair of the National Commission for Women, Rekha Sharma, made a statement to the press after the Sessions Court passed the order of conviction, calling for the imposition of the death penalty, and stating, "Her parents educated her and thought that she was going to be self-dependent.

"[5] Later, Tomar's father is reported by Daily News and Analysis to have said that a law prohibiting 'love jihad' would have saved his daughter.