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Updated: Apr 22, 2019 04:08 IST

The police on Saturday night arrested a 25-year-old man for allegedly stabbing a 23-year-old woman with a knife after she stopped talking to him and refused his offer of marriage in Sector 18. The woman is critical, and is undergoing treatment at a private hospital. The police said a co-worker of the woman’s had intervened to hold off the attacker, but he sustained a minor injury.

The woman sustained three stab wounds in the upper torso and was rushed to the private hospital in Sector 43, where she is said to be critical and under observation. Her co-worker was discharged after first aid, the police said.

According to the police, the incident took place on Friday around 7:45pm when the woman, who works in a managerial capacity in a private bank in Sector 17, was standing with a colleague near the office of another company on Sector 18 Road.

Vivek Kundu, station house officer (SHO), Sector 17/18 police station, said the suspect, who hails from Jharsa, approached the woman and stabbed her thrice in the stomach.

Kundu said the suspect confessed that he attacked the woman as she had stopped talking to him for a while, adding that they had a personal dispute.

Police said the victim, a resident of Sikanderpur Goshi village in DLF, and the accused, Pritam, had known each other for a year and since then, the accused had been trying to court her. “He wanted to get married to her and had proposed. But the woman had refused since her parents were opposed to the alliance. She stopped talking to him and both had allegedly fought over the matter,” said a police official privy to the investigation.

A case was registered against the accused man at Sector 17/18 police station.