NAVI MUMBAI: A 25-year-old man allegedly murdered his former girlfriend, a 22-year-old, by slashing her throat with a knife at her house in New Panvel Friday evening.
Soon after attacking her, the man, Nikesh Shinde, attempted suicide at the woman’s house itself. He underwent surgery for the injury that he sustained, and is recuperating in hospital.
The police said the man had been upset after the former girlfriend, Jagruti Satve, had ended their relationship about three months ago and he suspected that she was now seeing another man – something that he was opposed to.
The man barged into the woman’s house in sector-2 around 5.30 pm and got into an argument with her during which he slit her throat with the knife, a officer said.
After attacking the woman, he turned the same knife on himself, slashing the neck and forearm. The injured woman was taken to the sub-district hospital at Panvel by her elder sister’s friend. She was declared ‘brought dead’ at the hospital. The man has been booked for murder on the basis of a criminal offence registered by the dead woman’s sister. The murder weapon has been recovered by the police.
