Stalker stabs BBA student, 19, to death near college in Aurangabad

AURANGABAD: A BBA student (19) was stabbed to death by a man, aged around 24, for turning down his proposal for a relationship and advances in the heart of the city around 2pm on Saturday, police said.
The man stabbed Sukhpreet Kaur, alias Kashish Granthi, 17 times with a ‘kirpan’ (curved, single-edged knife) in the vicinity of Deogiri College, where she was a first-year bachelor of business administration (BBA) student, in Rachnakar Colony on the railway station road, a police officer said.
CCTV footage showed him dragging the student along the road for nearly 200 feet before committing the crime, the officer said. An autopsy at Government Medical College and Hospital revealed that she was stabbed 14 times in her neck and thrice in stomach.
Based on a complaint lodged by the deceased’s elder brother, Harpreet (24), the Vedantnagar police have registered an FIR against the suspect for stalking and murdering the student. Sukhpreet was the youngest daughter of an engineer employed with a bearing manufacturer.
Vedantnagar police station inspector Sachin Sanap said, “The victim’s eyewitness friend has identified the accused as 24-year old Sharansingh Sethi. Based on her information, Hemant named Sethi in the FIR.”
Jaswinder Kaur Granthi, a Canada-based cousin of the victim, told TOI over the phone, “The man had been bothering Sukhpreet for a while. This was brought to his parents’ notice, but in vain.”