PTI

Amaravati, December 6

An allegedly failed love affair led to the homicide of a 20-year-old dental pupil in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.

The assailant, a software program skilled, additionally allegedly threatened to die by suicide and lower his hand earlier than the locals overpowered him on Monday evening. He has been handed over to the police.

According to the police, the sufferer Tapaswi was a third-year pupil of BDS in Vijayawada.

She got here involved with one Gnaneswar on social media two years in the past. Their friendship blossomed into love however, over the previous few months, variations had cropped up between them.

Ever since, she had been avoiding him whilst he tried to patch up.

A few months in the past, the lady lodged a criticism with the police in Vijayawada in opposition to him, following which he was “counselled” to not harass her.

The pupil was staying along with her buddy at Takkellapdu close to Guntur for over every week now.

Knowing her whereabouts, Gnaneswar went to Takkellapadu on Monday evening and tried speaking to her.

Following a heated argument, he took out a surgical knife and slit Tapaswi’s throat whilst a frightened buddy ran out of the home to alert the neighbours.

Gnaneswar dragged a bleeding Tapaswi into an adjoining room and locked it up earlier than the locals got here and broke open the doorways.

He lower his arm on seeing the locals earlier than he was overpowered.

The bleeding lady was taken to a non-public hospital in Guntur, the place she succumbed to her accidents.

The Pedakakani police registered a case and began an investigation.