CHIKMAGALUR: A jilted lover fatally stabbed a girl who spurned his overtures, here on Saturday. The allged attacker, Subbu alias Subramanya, a married man and resident of Kalyananagar, works in a cyber café.
He fell in love with Nayana, 24, a computer operator at the taluk panchayat office here. He had been pressuring her to marry him, but she refused.
On Saturday afternoon, an infuriated Subbu came to the panchayat office and stabbed Nayana in the neck and fled.
She was taken to hospital, where she was declared brought dead. City police are investigating the incident and looking for Subbu.
Nayana is the daughter of a hotel employee, Ananda Nayak. On hearing about the incident, some youth came to the computer institute where Subbu was working and ransacked the office.
They damaged many computers and stoned windowpanes before fleeing.