A minor girl, said to be around 15 years, was stabbed with a knife in Thane city on Sunday evening by a 15-year-old boy.
According to the Vartak Nagar police, the incident took place on Sunday evening in Savarkar Nagar, where the girl lives with her parents.
The boy lives in Mumbai and was known to the victim. He had come to meet the victim at her residence and after an altercation pulled out a small knife from his pocket and stabbed her in the stomach in the presence of her parents.
With the help of local residents they nabbed the boy before he could flee. After assaulting him, the local residents handed him to the Vartak Nagar police.
He has been arrested and an FIR against him under attempt to murder charges was in the process of being registered. The girl was rushed to Kaushalya hospital where she is being treated.
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Punjab absconder arrested
JAYPRAKASH S. NAIDU
Mumbai, Sept.15
A 50-year-old from Punjab, who had evaded arrest for eight years after jumping bail in 2004, was arrested from Mumbai by Punjab police officials on Sunday.
According to the officials, the accused Lakhbir Singh, who worked as a labourer, lived in Kartarpur in Jalandhar. In 2004, along with accomplices he demolished a house in Saadhan Wali, Kartarpur and fled with the valuables. The police had arrested them the same year.
“Later Singh was granted bail but during the trial he did not appear in court and remained absconding. He later escaped to Bahrain. We have rearrested him after eight years,” said API Shamser Singh from Kartarpur police.
A lookout notice had been issued against him at the country’s international airports. Earlier this week, immigration officials at the CST international airport detained him after he landed from Bahrain.