Man brutally murders woman for rejecting wedding proposal, then commits suicide

Mangaluru, Sept 28: A 26-year-old brutally murdered a woman for turning down his wedding proposal, and then committed suicide by hanging himself under the limits of Moodbidri police station in Dakshina Kannada district today.

The victim is Charishma (22), a resident of Saldanha Compound at Pranthya village in Moodbidri. The accused is Lohith (26), a resident of Muger in Bajal in Mangaluru.

Charishma was residing with her elder brother and mother in a rented house and was alone at the time of the incident. 

Lohith, trespassing into the house, allegedly stabbed her in the neck and hit her head with a hammer, the police said.

As the woman raised an alarm, neighbours rushed to her house, following which Lohith entered another room and hanged himself to death, the police said.

Though the woman was immediately rushed to a hospital, she breathed her last on the way, the police said.

It is said that the assailant was a distant relative of the victim, who was a dance artiste, and had proposed to marry her. 

While the woman rejected the proposal, her mother, Champavathi, who works in a government office at Karkala, had reportedly told him that she would consider his marriage proposal for her daughter later. 

Enraged with Charishma’s refusal, Lohith committed the offence by entering her house from the backyard, the police said.

Moodbidri Police, who have registered cases, are investigating. MLA Umanath Kotian, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime and Traffic) Uma Prashanth and other officers visited the spot.