17-year-old girl attacks another for refusing to marry her, held

17-year-old girl attacks another for refusing to marry her, held

BHIWANI: This borders on the bizarre. A 17-year-old girl was arrested for allegedly attacking another girl, also a minor, with a knife when she turned down her marriage proposal, in a village near here.

Police said that both the girls were classmates and the accused was held on the complaint of the victim's parents.

The accused girl, who has been sent to a juvenile home in Hisar, had also threatened to commit suicide if the latter didn't marry her, police said.

The cops failed to placate the accused minor girl even with the help of counsellors, said a senior police officer. She has been booked on charges of assault and suicide bid threat.

Both the girls are studying in government senior secondary girls' school in Sanwar village. They passed Class XI exams recently and were promoted to Class XII.

Probe revealed that the girls have been close friends for the last three years and spent most of the time together in school and after it too, said the officer.

However, trouble began when the accused insisted on marrying the other girl. Shocked at her proposal, the victim girl revealed the matter to her parents, who tried to sort out the matter by counselling her.

But she refused to listen to their pleas and attacked the victim girl with a knife, causing injury, when the latter was alone at her house on Monday.

The terrified girl, along with her parents, approached Bond police on Wednesday evening and lodged a complaint against her.

Bond police station SHO Daya Singh said that the accused minor has been booked for assaulting her classmate and for threatening to commit suicide. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/17-year-old-girl-attacks-another-for-refusing-to-marry-her-held/articleshow/20115470.cms