A 20-year-old man, who got bail a month ago, stabbed a 15-year-old girl and attacked her younger sister in Chhattisgarh’s Bhillai. Police said the accused killed the girl as she left him to be with some other man when he was in jail.
Bhilai, Chhattisgarh ,UPDATED: Mar 31, 2023 22:25 IST
Mahesh stabbed the girl in the chest and stomach, which led her to bleed profusely. (Representative photo)
By India Today News Desk: A 20-year-old man stabbed a minor girl and attacked her younger sister with a knife in Chhattisgarh’s Bhillai on Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred in front of Sheetla Mandir in Indira Nagar in the jurisdiction of Supela police station in Durg district.
The accused has been identified as Mahesh Yadav. Police said he had an affair with the 15-year-old girl and killed her in a fit of rage as she left him to be with some other man when he was in jail.
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According to police, Mahesh was imprisoned in November after he was found guilty in a theft case. He came out on bail in February and called the girl to meet him. The girl refused to meet Mahesh, stating that she was in love with another boy and didn’t want to have any relationship with him.
Infuriated by the girl’s rejection, Mahesh nursed a grudge against her and decided to kill her three days before he attacked the two sisters.
Police said that Mahesh called the girl to meet him for one last time during Jawara Visarjan on Thursday. When the girl went to meet him with her younger sister, Mahesh fatally attacked both of them with a knife.
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When Mahesh attacked the younger sister with a knife, she ran to save her life but collapsed to the ground a few metres away. The accused, who is also a minor, stabbed the other girl in the chest and stomach, which led her to bleed profusely.
While the elder girl died before reaching hospital, the condition of her younger sister is said to be serious and she has been referred to a hospital in Durg.
Police said Mahesh was inebriated at the time he attacked the two sisters. Following the murder, he fled the spot and slept on the roof of a government school nearby.
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When police received information about the incident, they activated their network of informers and arrested Mahesh within a few hours of the murder.
The Supela police brought Mahesh to the spot where he attacked the two sisters and recovered the knife used for the murder. Police registered a case against him under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code and was presented before a court.
Superintendent of Police Durg Dr. Abhishek Palla, “Mahesh had gone to jail in November on charges of theft and got bail in February…
Unrequited love and anger are what drove him to commit the crime. We arrested him from the school building, where he was hiding after murdering the minor girl.”
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The SP said that Mahesh was upset after the girl refused to meet him three days ago and had been planning to kill her since then.
