Girl stabbed to death 51 times with screwdriver

In Chhattisgarh's Korba district, a man allegedly killed a 20-year-old woman by stabbing her 51 times with a screwdriver.

City Superintendent of Police (Korba) Vishwadeepak Tripathi said that the incident took place on December 24 at the Pump House Colony of South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL).

According to the police, when the accused reached there, the victim was alone in the house.

He covered her mouth with a pillow to muffle her screams and stabbed her 51 times with a screwdriver.

The officer said the victim's brother later found her lying in a pool of blood when he reached home.

He said that preliminary investigation has revealed that the accused, a resident of Jashpur district, had befriended the victim three years ago when he was working as a conductor in a passenger bus and the woman used to travel in it.

The officer said that after this the accused went to Ahmedabad in connection with work and both were in touch through phone.

When the woman stopped talking to him on the phone, the accused also threatened her parents.

Police has registered a case and search is on for the missing accused.



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