BENGALURU: A youth committed suicide after killing a 20-year-old woman for rejecting his marriage proposal at Belagavi in Karnataka. The woman has been identified as Aishwarya Mahesh Lohar and the youth as Prashant Kundekar, aged 29 of Yellur village in Belagavi taluk.

Aishwarya was staying at her relative’s house in Nath Pai Circle. The two were in a relationship. Prashant was a painter. He had approached her mother with the proposal. However, her mother had advised him to first focus on becoming financially stable.

Prashant reached her house yesterday and demanded her to marry him. When she refused, he tried to force her to drink the poison he had in his hand. As she resisted, he pulled out a knife from his pocket and slit her throat. He then used the same knife to slit his own throat and ended his life.