THRISSUR: A youth barged into the house of a girl, stabbed her and burnt her to death on Thursday in a shocking incident. The initial investigation hinted that he did the heinous crime after the girl spurned his marriage proposal.
The accused is a B-Tech student; he claimed that he befriended her through the Facebook, started a love relationship with her and finally decided to marry her.
The dead has been identified as Chiyyarathu Old Post Office resident Neethu (22), who was living with her grandparents. Her purported lover Nitheesh (27) is a senior employee of a US-based IT company in Ernakulam. He is the son of Sathyanathan-Ratnakumari couple, residing at Vadakkekadu Kalloorkattupoyil. Nedumpuzha police have arrested him. Neethu was the daughter of Krishna Kumar and the late Sumangala; she was a third year Civil Engineering student of Kodali Axis Engineering College.
According to the police, locals herd bullet pulling off in font of Neethu’s neighbour and uncle’s house around 6:45 am on Thursday.
Neethish (32), is suspected to have gained entry into the house compound through the backside, as the compound wall is broken in that side.
Only the girl and her grandmother were in the house when the incident took place, he said. Inside that big house only Valsala Menon, Vijayan Menon and Neethu were living. As Vatsala Menon opened the kitchen door, the accused managed to enter the house and reached Neethu’s room. There he once again proposed to her. As she rejected it, Neethish stabbed her neck and stomach with a knife; he doused her with the petrol he carried with him and set her on fire. She was wearing Churidhar and when the fire started spreading to the dress, she ran into the bathroom, crying alarmingly. Hearing her cries, his uncle and grandfather rushed to her room but only to see her falling down, after being charred to death.
Neethish, who tried to flee the scene, was caught by locals and handed over to the police.
Neethu’s body is now in Thrissur Medical College and it will brought home on Friday after post-mortem.