A pregnant teenager from Chhattisgarh has been detained for allegedly stabbing her boyfriend to death while he was asleep, after he refused to marry her.
According to news agency PTI, the 16-year-old accused left the victim's body in a lodge in Raipur district of Chhattisgarh.
The murder came to light after the body of a man in his early 20s was recovered from a room in a lodge under the Ganj police station limits on Monday, an official said.
The victim, hailing from Bihar, had been living in Chhattisgarh.
The staff at the lodge alerted the police after noticing suspicious activity in a room. The police team arrived at the lodge and found the body with multiple stab wounds.
Even as the Raipur police launched an investigation into the murder, the accused girl, a resident of Bilaspur district, reached Koni police station with her mother and confessed to the crime and surrendered.
According to a preliminary investigation, the victim and the accused had been in a relationship. After the girl became pregnant, she allegedly pressured him to marry her, but he refused.
The two checked into a room in the lodge on September 27, and the teen allegedly attacked the man with a sharp weapon while he was asleep and killed him, the official said. She then locked the room, threw the key onto a railway track, and returned to Bilaspur.
A case of murder has been registered, and further investigation is underway.