New Delhi: A 23-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after he killed a 19-year-old college student by stabbing her multiple times for rejecting his love in Gujarat's Vadodara city, PTI reported.
The accused, identified as Kalpesh Thakor, also chopped off the hand of the woman after the murder, police said.
After killing the woman, Thakor dumped her body on the outskirts of the city. The woman has been identified as Trisha Solanki, police said.
Solanki's body was found lying in an isolated area with several stab wounds and her right hand severed, PTI reported. Thakor was arrested on murder charges, a police officer said.
Additional Commissioner of Police Chirag Koradiya said Thakor had known the victim for the last four years and was harassing her repeatedly.
"He had called her to meet him and he killed her using a sharp weapon. His was one-sided love for the victim," Koradiya told reporters.
The victim was staying with her uncle's family in Vadodara and preparing for a police recruitment exam, PTI reported.
The cops suspected Thakor for the murder since he was reprimanded by the victim's relatives for harassing her in the past as well.
During the interrogation, Thakor said he was angry with the victim as she was not reciprocating his love, and becoming friends with someone else, PTI quoted investigators as saying.
"The accused had blackmailed Solanki to become his friend around three years ago, but he was not in touch with her after she returned to Godhra," police said in a press release.
After Solanki returned from Godhra, Thakor wanted to meet her again but she refused. This angered Thakor and he decided to kill her. He forced her to meet him on Tuesday evening at an isolated place, the release said.
"He carried a sharp weapon and persuaded her to come to an isolated place where he hit her on her nape, before stabbing her several times. He then took off on her two-wheeler which he parked elsewhere before joining his friend on Tuesday night," the crime branch said.