Man arrested for attacking lover

A 24-year-old man was arrested today for causing severe injury to a teenage girl, with whom he was in a relationship, by allegedly slitting her neck in outer Delhi's Mangolpuri area, police said.

The accused, identified as Rahul, was arrested from Fish Market, U Block, Mangolpuri, Vikramjeet Singh, DCP(Outer) said.

According to the police, Rahul, a resident of Sultanpur Majra village, came to meet his 18-year-old girlfriend at her place when she was alone. They had a fight over Rahul's refusal to marry her. He apparently wanted to end the relationship and in a fit of rage slit the girl's neck.
 

The accused then fled the spot, they said.

The girl was rushed to the hospital by her parents, where she underwent a surgery, police added.