thiruvananthapuram an 18yearold girl was stabbed to death by her former boyfriend due to suspicion of infidelity at varkala on wednesday at 130amsangeetha daughter of sajeev of sangeetha nivas at vadasserikonam near thettikulam at varkala was murdered by gopu 20 son of gopi of pallickal at varkalaaccording to rural sp shilpa d sangeetha and gopu were in a relationship but a couple of months ago she backed out from the relationship gopu was disturbed after the breakup and started to allegedly harassing her sangeetha informed this to her father who went to the house of gopu and advised him to stop disturbing his daughter gopu and his parents also promised the father that he would not contact sangeetha anymorehowever gopu bought a new sim card and contacted sangeeth using a false identity gopu started calling sangeetha pretending to be akhil and their friendship grew this added fuel to his animosity towards her the fear of losing her coupled with his annoyance over her friendship with others led to the murder said shilpa don tuesday night gopu contacted her as akhil and informed her that he would come to her house to meet her at 130 am on wednesday he reached her house and asked her to come out sangeetha was sleeping with her sister sajitha when gopu reached the house after informing her sister she went out through the backdoor gopu was wearing a helmet and when sangeetha asked him to reveal his face he refused to do so however sangeetha recognised his voice and tried to go back inside but gopu attacked her and stabbed her on the neck using the knife he had brought alonggopu then left the place immediately on his twowheeler sangeetha who was severely injured knocked on the front door of her house for help hearing the commotion sajeev opened the window and saw his daughter lying in a pool of blood she was soon rushed to varkala mission hospital but her life could not be saved sangeetha was a first year bcom student at sree sankara college in kilimanoor she is the daughter of sajeev a daily wage worker and salini a homemakerthe police arrested gopu from his home hours after the crime however fearing public outrage the police could not take gopu for evidence collection to the girls house on wednesdayrural sp shilpa d who visited the house ruled out the involvement of anyone else in the crime gopu has admitted to the police that he committed the crime alone said the sppolice arrest accused from home after committing the crime around 2 am gopu went to pick up his father who works as a security guard at shabana auditorium in pallickalgopu had already informed his family that he will come back home late as he will be attending an event in connection with the mandala pooja festival at a nearby temple gopus father gopi has informed the police that he did not spot anything strange or unusual in gopus behaviour when he