MUMBAI: A 20-year-old youth stabbed a 12-year-old girl to death for rejecting his love. The incident happened last night at Kalyan East in Mumbai. The girl dead has been identified as Pranita Das. The police arrested the accused Aditya Kamble.

Police said the accused was in love with the girl but she had rejected his proposal. The enmity over this led him to commit the crime. The girl was staying in Durgasadan society of Tisgaon. The youth was found roaming around her house yesterday.

The girl was coming home with her mother after tuitions at 8 pm last night. The youth pushed her mother and stabbed Pranita from behind when she was climbing the steps of her building. She sustained serious injuries on her chest and fell down.

Her mother tried to prevent the youth from attacking, but failed. The locals came rushing hearing her mother’s screams. She was immediately taken to the hospital but succumbed to her injuries. The police arrested the youth who tried to flee and recovered the knife from the spot.