Kundapur girl stabbed to death on street in Bangalore

Kundapur, May 29: A 21-year-old Kundapur based girl was stabbed to death by an unidentified man as she was walking home from work in BTM Layout 2nd Stage in Bangalore on Monday evening.

The victim has been identified as S Divya, daughter of Shantha from Kundapur in Udupi district. She worked as an office assistant with a shoe manufacturing company in Bangalore.

Divya's neck was slashed with a sharp-edged weapon by the assailant moments after she alighted from a bus around 6:15 pm. She was on her way back home. The assailant fled as the girl lay bleeding profusely.

Passersby informed the police who rushed her to a private hospital where she died later.

Breakup

Pradeep, a relative of Divya, suspects that a man called Ranjith, with whom, she is said to have been in a relationship for the past four years, may have stabbed her.

Divya ended the relationship after learning that Ranjith was wayward. While Ranjith tried to mend the relationship, Divya did not relent.

Meanwhile, she was to be engaged to her relative Pradeep, a private firm employee. The couple was to get married next year. Divya had told Pradeep about her doomed courtship.

Her father, P Shyam, would drop her to office on Tavarakere Main Road on his bike every day.

On return, she would take a bus and alight at BTM Layout 2nd Stage bus stop, where her father would pick her up on way to their home in NS?Palya.

Unfortunately on Monday evening, Shyam could not reach on time to pick Divya up. She called him but he was in Basavanagudi and asked her to walk home. Little did he know that death was stalking his daughter.

Eyewitnesses say two unidentified men, aged about 25, followed Divya on a bike as soon as she got down from the bus. One of them got off the bike and followed her. He then stabbed her and fled on the bike with his friend.

Divya has three sisters. Her mother Shantha still lives in Kundapur, the family's hometown. Pradeep says he wanted to marry her despite knowing about her past relationship with Ranjith. “I would've still married her. She had distanced herself from Ranjith,” he said.

Pradeep says Ranjith had not given up on Divya. He even called Pradeep once and enquired him about his proposed marriage with Divya. Pradeep had also advised Ranjith to mend his relationship with Divya by convincing her of his character.

Mico Layout Police are on the lookout for Ranjith and his accomplice.