Youth 'cooked up' girlfriend's murder story, himself killer:Police
Police said on Fridady that 25-year-old Balbir Prasad stabbed his girlfriend multiple times before inflicting injuries on himself and cooked up a story.
He reportedly became a suspect after police found several gaps in his statement and recovered a letter from his bag.
"The letter said he was committing the crime as he had been humiliated by the girl and her family,'' police said.
On Wednesday, Prasad told police that he and his 22-year-old girlfriend were chatting near railway tracks when four drunk men appeared there. They made sexual advances on the girl and stabbed her several times as she fought with them. Then the miscreants also stabbed him and ran away, Prasad claimed.
The news hit headlines across the country in a reminder to the 2012 Delhi gangrape horror that resulted in the death of a girl who was travelling in a bus with her friend.
However, police noticed that Prasad was 'inconsistent' in his answers to questions and his injuries also appeared to be superficial.
"Initially, we took Prasad's statement and treated it like a rape and murder bid but several inconsistencies emerged. There were gaps in his description of the alleged attackers," police said.
According to police, Prasad was upset at being rejected by the girl's parents.
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