new delhi the gehlot family and the entire neighbourhood of bank colony in west delhis nawada are outraged that raju gehlot never got a chance to defend himself against the charge that he murdered his livein partner neetu solanki in february 2011 the neighbours said his illfated relationship had destroyed a bright career and forced him to lead an obscure life right to the point of his deathon his deathbed in the gurugram hospital gehlot reportedly asked the authorities to inform his family about his condition his elder brother deepak came to meet him according to neighbours gehlot was irregular in his communication with the family sporadically getting his relatives in nangloi to contact the members on thursday the gates of the gehlots twostorey house in bank colony remained lockedhe too went through a lot of pain after the incident one of gehlots uncles said no one heard his version of the story or whether he had committed the crime at all everyone just started hounding him the steps he took afterwards were the fallout of thatneighbours recall gehlot as a bright and ambitious youth he wanted to become a model and then became a flight attendant said pankaj a neighbour it was only when he met the woman and some of her friends that he began straying from his goals we dont believe he is a killerthe gehlots arent willing to say much or even listen to people curious about the case we dont want to discuss about raju with anyone a relative said quickly shutting the barely open door to the house the family members have been through enough of it now that raju is no more let everything be forgottena remembrance service was held in the village on thursday but gehlots body was cremated with care taken to keep the rite away from public gaze the body had been handed over to the family late on wednesday night after the cops requested the hospital authorities to call gehlots brother to collect it