KHAMMAM: In a cold-blooded incident, a youth stabbed a 17-year-old girl 11 times, threw her into the bushes and left her to die at Satyanarayanapuram in Yellandu of Kothagudem district on Thursday midnight. After throwing her, even as she writhed in pain and bled profusely, the accused surrendered.
The police rushed to the spot and took the girl to the Yellandu Hospital, from where she was shifted to the Khammam district hospital as her condition worsened. She is now being treated and continues to be in a critical condition, the police said. According to the Yellandu Inspector of Police, Jakkula Sandeep, a carpenter, had fallen in love with the girl, a resident of Yellandulapadu in Yellandu town.
Youth left girl to die in the bushes after stabbing her
The two had been meeting up often for the last one year but things got awkward when the girl asked Sandeep to marry her. Lately, she had been pressuring him regarding this but he was not interested.
On Thursday night, Sandeep asked the girl to meet him at a designated place on the pretext of discussing her proposal.
Not suspecting any foul play, she reached the spot and the two had an argument. When she began to scream at him, Sandeep, in a fit of rage, grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed her 11 times indiscriminately. The girl collapsed in a pool of blood and he dragged her into the bushes, leaving her to die.
The incident occurred at a desolate place between the villages of Satyanarayanapuram and Yellandulapadu. The police have booked Sandeep under Sections 376, 307 and 4 of the POCSO Act, based on a complaint from the girl’s mother. The police produced Sandeep in court, and he was remanded to 14 days judicial custody.