Hyderabad: Woman software engineer injured after man attacks her with knife for rejecting marriage proposal

Hyderabad: A 29-year-old woman software engineer was injured when a man allegedly attacked her with a knife for turning down his marriage proposal at Hydershakote in Narsingi here on Tuesday night.

According to police, the victim was identified as Sujana.

She was in friendship with Shahrukh (29), a hair stylist for quite some time and the former rejected the marriage proposal proposed by the latter. 

Since few days, Sujana started avoiding him after her marriage was fixed.

Keeping a grudge against Sujana, Shahrukh went to her house and called her out in the guise of discussion and allegedly attacked her with a knife last night.

Alerted family members caught him with the local people and handed over to police.

Sujana, who received two grievous and equal number small injuries, was admitted to a private hospital at Langer house and the doctors declared her as out of danger.

A case has been registered and an investigation is underway, police added. (UNI)