Girl killed by lover inside gurudwara in Dahod

Vadodara: A love affair between a man and a woman belonging to different faiths saw a tragic end after the man allegedly killed in a gurudwara, just two days before she was to get married to someone else.
According to the police, the 21-year-old man and the girl were in a relationship, but the girl’s parents had arranged her marriage elsewhere. Sources said that the couple belonged to different faiths and this may have been a major hurdle.
On Wednesday, the girl and her cousin sister went to the gurudwara after the man called her to meet. Her cousin was asked to wait outside even as the girl and the man went inside the gurudwara.
Dahod town police inspector V P Patel said that the cousin sister who was waiting outside went into the gurudwara once after a few minutes, but was asked by the man to go back. It was sometime after this around noon that the man killed the girl by stabbing her repeatedly and then tried to end his life using the same knife.
The duo was found in a pool of blood in the gurudwara and was rushed to the Dahod Civil Hospital. The girl was declared dead on admission while the youth man’s condition is said to be critical.
Patel said that it seemed that the assailant took the extreme step as he did not want the girl to get married to someone else. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the couple may not have planned to end their lives together, but it was the man who murdered the girl and then attempted suicide.