Man stabs ex-girlfriend to death in Mumbai, dies by suicide

A 24-year-old man chased and fatally stabbed his former girlfriend in public and committed suicide by slitting his throat in central Mumbai on Friday, police said.

The accused, Sonu Barai, attacked Manisha Yadav (24) on a road in the Kalachowkie area around 11 am, nearly two weeks after the they broke up, an official said.

He said that Manisha sustained serious injuries in the attack and was rushed to Dr Ambedkar Hospital in Byculla, where she died during treatment.

According to the police, Barai suspected that Manisha was seeing someone else, which had led to a fight between the duo, and they eventually ended their relationship. On Friday morning, the accused called Manisha for a meeting and carried a kitchen knife with him.

When she arrived, Barai stabbed her two to three times and chased after her as she ran to save her life and entered a nursing home. The attack continued inside the medical facility, as he held on to Manisha and slashed her again, the official said.

He said that although people in the vicinity tried to intervene, they could not do much as Barai was angry and armed. Just then, someone threw a stone at Barai and hit him with the wooden stick, which made him realise that he won’t be able to escape.

Barai slit his throat and died at the spot due to excessive blood loss, the official said.

Several videos of the attack inside the nursing home surfaced on social media. In the video clips, people can be seen trying to rescue the victim from the attacker, while a few others beat the accused with a stick and throw stones at him.

An on-duty traffic police constable and two others picked up the woman, who was drenched in blood, and rushed her to the hospital.

The official said that Barai was lying in a pool of blood at the entrance of the nursing home and was rushed to the civic-run KEM hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.

The bodies will be handed over to their families after the post-mortem, he said. A case has been registered at Kalachowki police station, and a probe is underway, he said.