The police said that an engineering student, Aravind, killed a 16-year old girl, identified as G Nikitha by slitting her throat after she rejected his marriage proposal in Telangana’s Sangareddy district on Thursday evening. When Nikitha returned from her school, Aravind went to her house and threatened her of dreadful consequences if she rejected his marriage proposal. In the argument that followed, he lost his cool, picked up a kitchen knife and slashed her throat. As she started screaming, neighbours rushed to the spot, caught hold of Aravind and thrashed him before handing him over the Bollarum police. Inspector Satish Reddy, Bollarum, said that Aravind had been stalking the girl for quite some time though she was not interested in him. he said that they have booked a case of murder against him and the case is under investigation. The deceased, a class 10 student in a local private school at Bollarum was the daughter of Tarakeshwara Rao, who originally hails from Palasa in Andhra Pradesh’s Srikakulam district and is working in a local cottage industry. The incident happened at Vinayaknagar of Bollarum village of Jinnaram block, about 30 km from Hyderabad. According to the Police, for the past few months, her neighbour Aravind alias Sonu (19), studying B Tech (third year) in Nanded in Maharashtra, had been stalking her and pressuring her to accept his love proposal and she had been spurning his proposal. Nikitha was taken to a private hospital at Kukatpally, where she succumbed to her injuries a couple of hours later. The body was shifted to a government hospital at Patancheru for post-mortem.