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 now recuperating in hospital.
The police said that the man was 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 police officer said.
“Even after their break-up, the man used to quarrel with her, telling her to stay away from the other man with whom he suspected she was now involved. But the woman had chosen to ignore him,” said the officer.
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’ by doctors at the hospital.
The injured man too was taken to the same hospital where he is undergoing treatment. He was operated upon on Friday for the injury on the neck and forearm, said senior inspector of Khandeshwar police station, Smita Dhakne.
“There is no danger to the man’s life,” the police inspector quoted the surgeon who operated on him as saying.
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.
The police inspector said that the man, being treated for injury, would be arrested for murder after he is discharged from hospital.