Jilted lover slits 18-year-old girl’s throat, arrested

In another case in Outer Delhi, youth pushes girl off balcony.

In a shocking incident, a 24-year-old youth allegedly slit the throat of an 18-year-old girl for allegedly refusing to accept his marriage proposal. The incident took place in outer Delhi’s Mangolpuri area on Friday morning. The police said that within hours they arrested the accused who has been identified as Rahul. Sources meanwhile said that the girl, admitted at the Sanjay Gandhi Hospital, is stable.

According to senior police officials, the incident took place at around 9 am in the T-block of Mangolpuri area when 18-year-old Sapna was in her house. While she was getting ready, Rahul entered her room, slashed her throat with a sharp edged object several times and fled from the spot.

Sources said that Sapna’s family members were not present inside the house when Rahul attacked her. It was only later when a relative who came to visit them, found Sapna lying in a pool of blood, writhing in pain. Later, the hospital authorities informed the police about the incident.

Her family was informed and Sapna was rushed to the hospital where doctors declared her to be critical, but out of danger.

According to sources, Rahul is the son of a Delhi police constable. Since he was unemployed, Sapna’s family had refused to get her married to him. Enraged over this, he took the extreme action.

In a similar incident, a jilted lover allegedly pushed a 21-year-old woman off the balcony of her house when she refused to accept his marriage proposal at Outer Delhi’s Mangolpuri area on late Monday evening. According to the police, the accused befriended the victim one and a half years ago on the social networking site, Facebook. The police said that it has arrested the accused who has been identified as Amit.

According to the police, the incident took place at around 9 pm in the Avantika Enclave apartments where the girl lived with her family. The accused had forcefully entered the girl’s house with his two sisters and a man and started arguing with the girl and her family to accept his marriage proposal. Sources said that in a fit of rage, Amit pushed the girl from the balcony of their first floor. A day after Amit was arrested the police also arrested his sister Manju under Sections of 307.