An alleged stalker on Monday, December 2, stabbed a 17-year-old girl to death in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district, police said on Tuesday.
The accused Shivkumar Choudhary – a resident of Kudwari village, was arrested by the police following the gruesome crime.
“Shivkumar Chaudhary had been stalking and harassing the teenager for a long time. Two months ago, the girl lodged a complaint with Gohalpur police station. Police had arrested Chaudhary and sent him to jail. He was released on bail in the first week of November,” said Amit Singh, Jabalpur’s Superintendent of Police as quoted in a Hindustan Times report.
Choudhary had earlier shared his love for the girl, but the latter rejected his proposal.
“He was and forcing her to marry him but when the girl refused to so, he decided to kill her. The girl was alone at her home on Monday. Chaudhary entered her home and locked the door from inside and attacked her with a knife, which he purchased online,” the police officer said.
On Monday evening, the accused entered the teen’s house at when her parents were out for some work and her brother was playing outside, inspector Praveen Singh said.
The victim’s brother saw the accused entering the house and bolting the door from inside, following which he alerted his uncle.
“The girl’s uncle and other villagers rushed there and asked Choudhary to open the door. However, the accused did not do so and allegedly stabbed the girl multiple times with a knife,” a PTI report quoted the official as saying.
The family of the girl with the help of some villagers then broke open the door and saw the accused stabbing the girl, who was lying on a bed.
The victim was rushed to a hospital where doctors declared her dead, the official said. Choudhary was arrested and the knife, which he bought through an online shopping site, was seized, he said.
According to the police, the accused was arrested three months back also when the girl complained that he was harassing her. He was later granted bail in that case.
