A 24-year old jilted lover allegedly inflicted injury on the neck of a 22-year old girl with a blade at the VUDA park here on Monday. He later inflicted wounds on himself. Seeing the duo bleeding, the park staff shifted them to a hospital, where they are declared out of danger. The boy has been identified as K Naga Lakshmana Rao (24), resident of Krishna district and the girl, hailing from Srikakulam district and pursuing B.Sc second year in a private college in Visakhapatnam.
According to Inspector of Three Town Police Station, B Venkat Rao, the accused came to know the girl through a social network site about two years ago and later got acquainted with her over phone.
As per the initial investigation, Naga Lakshmana reportedly proposed the victim on Monday and after she refused, he suspected that she was having another affair with someone else. After a heated argument, he allegedly attacked her with the blade.