Maharashtra: 19-year-old held for trying to strangle girl for rejecting his overtures

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A 19-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to kill a girl after she rejected his attempts to be in a romantic relationship in Maharashtra's Palghar district, an official said on Friday.

The police said accused Aman Madheshiya and the girl were studying in the same college in Vasai, on the outskirts of Mumbai, and were friends.

The official said the accused once slapped the girl in the college after she rejected his proposal and action was taken against him by the college management.

Quoting the girl's complaint, the official said that Madheshiya visited the girl's house on Monday when she was alone. He tried to make advances but she once again rejected them.

The accused then dragged her to the bathroom and tried to strangulate her to death. He later fled the scene after snatching her mobile phone, the official said.

After regaining consciousness, the girl raised an alarm and sought help from neighbours.

On a complaint by her parents, the Valiv police station in Vasai arrested Madheshiya on Wednesday, the official said.

The girl is being treated in a local hospital, he added.

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Meanwhile, the police in Maharashtra's Aurangabad city have started using an artificial intelligence-based fast messaging software to cut down on their response time, a senior official said.

Talking to reporters on Thursday, Aurangabad police commissioner Manoj Lohiya said through the fast messaging software, a recorded message from the official at a crime scene will directly be relayed in the form of a phone call to other personnel.

The new technology adopted by the city police will help reduce the response time at crime scenes, he said.

Earlier, police personnel who arrive at a scene of crime had to call the control room to ask for additional force or aid and the message would then be relayed to other staffers, the official said.

With this new software, an officer can record a voice message and send it through the app and within two minutes, a call would go to the phones of the concerned policemen, he said, adding that this saves precious minutes in the response time. (Agencies)