According to police, the deceased woman and the accused were in a live in relationship. The accused Riyaz Khan is already married and some reports say he has 3 wives.
Meanwhile, Delhi BJP leader and Member of Parliament, Gautam Gambhir condemned the attack saying that the person who threw acid on the school girl should be publicly executed.
Accused Saqib Saifi along with his family members was allegedly tormenting the victim after sexually harassing her and pressuring her to convert to Islam.
On May 18, Aftab Amin Poonawala had murdered his live-in partner, Shraddha Walkar, and chopped her body into 35 pieces and disposed it of across Delhi.
On November 14, the Delhi Police solved the six-month-old murder case and arrested Aftab Amin Poonawala for murdering her, and chopping her body into pieces.
Speaking in the context of these gruesome murders and love Jihad cases, Union Minister Kaushal Kishore has urged Muslim clerics to issue Fatwa directing Muslim men not to target Hindu girls.