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A 17-year-old college student from Maharashtra’s Palghar was allegedly killed by a 23-year old man, on Friday for refusing his marriage proposal. Police said that the accused, identified as Prabhakar Waghare was her friend. The incident occured in the afternoon at Mokhada area which is located about 100 kilometres from Palghar.
A police offfical said that the victim, Archana Udar, a resident of Pimpalpada was a Class XII student in a junior college and was going to have lunch with her female friend when she was attacked by the man.
The accused man was in a one-sided relationship with her for the past two years and killed the victim by slitting her throat with a knife, the official added.
He further said, “Waghare found out the girl had received a marriage proposal some 10 days ago and was distressed since. When he proposed to her and she refused, Waghare slit her throat with a knife. Udar was rushed to a nearby hospital where doctors declared her dead on arrival”.
The accused, Waghare escaped from the spot and has been charged with murder. An official from the Mokhada police station said that efforts are underway to nab him.
In another incident that occured last month, a man allegedly killed a specially-abled woman n Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district for refusing his marriage proposal. The body of the deceased was found hanging from a tree in a forested area near Khuntgarh village in Pratapgarh’s Devgarh area.
The accused, identified as Kuldeep Gehlot was arrested in connection with the case.
During the probe, police found that the accused took the woman to the forest area and pressured her to get married to him. However when she refused the duo had a fight and Gehlot allegedly strangulated her to death and hanged the body on a tree with the help of her scarf.
Earlier this year, a man in Delhi’s Malviya Nagar was arrested for allegedly killing a 25-year-old college student, after she refused his marriage proposal. According to police, the accused and the victim were cousins. The woman’s body was discovered near Vijay Mandal Park, and a rod was also found in close proximity, the police added.
Sources told CNN-News18 that he police arrested the accused, Irfan for the murder of the woman, identified as Nargis. The police had received information about a man assaulting a woman at Vijay Mandal Park in Shivalik A Block of Malviya Nagar following which he fled the scene.
(with PTI inputs)
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