MUMBAI: A man allegedly stabbed a
TV actress
with a
knife
in
suburban Andheri
after she turned down his marriage proposal, police said on Tuesday. The incident took place around 9 pm on Monday in
Versova
area of Andheri when
actress Malvi Malhotra
was returning home from a cafe.
The accused, Yogesh Mahipal Singh, who was in a car, stopped her on the way and asked why she had discontinued talking to him, a
police official
said.
This led to an argument between them and the accused stabbed Malhotra with a knife in the abdomen and on both hands and fled, he said.
The actress was rushed to a private hospital where she is undergoing treatment, the official said.
"We have registered an FIR against Singh under various
Indian Penal Code
sections, including 307 (attempt to murder), and are conducting an investigation into the case," Versova police station's senior inspector Raghvendra Thakur said.
The actress told the police that she knew the accused since last one year and he wanted to marry her, but she rejected the proposal, another official said.