Pune: 22-year-old man stabs woman to death for rejecting marriage proposal

A 22yearold man has been arrested by the Pimpri Chinchwad police in Pune district of Maharashtra for allegedly stabbing a young woman to death after she refused to marry him an official said on Tuesday reported the PTIAccording to the PTI Aviraj Kharat the accused allegedly killed Prachi Mane 21 at Ambethan in Khed tehsil of the district on late Sunday nightPrachi Mane had reportedly rejected Aviraj Kharats marriage proposal earlier the official said as per the PTIBoth Mane and Kharat hailed from Sangli district in MaharashtraAfter killing the woman the suspect in the case absconded He was later nabbed within 12 hours from Satara district in Maharashtra on Monday the police official said the news agency reported on TuesdayKharat was produced before a court which remanded him in police custody and further probe was on he addedNavi Mumbai murder case How accused was nabbed in five daysMeanwhile in an another incident five days after the a 20yearold woman was killed near Uran railway station in Navi Mumbai the police arrested a man from Karnataka the police saidThe suspect in the Navi Mumbai murder case is a native of Karnataka and it turned out to be an important clue for the multiple police teams working on the case and led to zeroing on the prime suspect in the caseAn official said that on July 25 a missing persons complaint was filed by the parents of the woman and on July 26 the body of the woman with multiple stab injuries and her face disfigured was recovered from an isolated spot in Uran The woman was identified as the person for which her parents had filed a missing complaint just a day beforeSeveral teams were formed by the police to investigate the case and the crime branch of the Navi Mumbai Police had also been conducting a parallel investigations in the matter an official saidHe stated that the officials had initially zeroed in on 23 suspects Two of them had been in touch with the woman recently and one of them was detained for questioning at first After detailed interrogations his involvement in the case was ruled out and later the prime suspect who was identified as Dawood Shaikh was being tracedA major clue in the case was that Dawood was a native of Karnataka The team of police officials began to trace him and after detailed analysis of technical clues his location was found to be in Gulbarga area of Karnataka an official saidHe said that it was found that Dawood had been in touch with the deceased woman and had met her on the day she was killedA team of police officials was sent to Gulbarga and his location was traced to Shahapur a hill area in Gulbarga from where he was nabbedHe was questioned after initially being detained by the police officials and he has confessed to the crime He was later officially arrested by the police the official saidwith PTI inputs