bijnor a 20yearold woman from najibabads himalayan colony was strangled to death by her boyfriend from madaka village under najibabad police station who then threw her body in a jungle in kotdwar uttrakhand apparently after the victim put pressure on her lover to get marriedaccording to police the couple had been in a relationship for the past two years the pair who belonged to different castes fell in love while studying the girl was pursuing baminakshi had recently started putting pressure on her boyfriend yogesh singh for marriage which he had snubbed when she kept nagging he took her to kotdwar on september 19 on pretext of making an offering at a temple strangled her and smashed her face beyond recognitionher family suspected yogeshs involvement after she went missing and lodged a complaint following which he was arrested late evening on monday yogesh confessed to his crime during interrogation and was sent to jail on tuesdaycircle officer mahesh kumar said five days after minakshi went missing her family filed a case against yogesh singh for abducting her on monday police tracked him down and arrested him he confessed during his questioning and told cops he was having an affair with minakshi for two years but had sunbbed her proposal for marriagekumar continued she was angry with him after the snub early morning on september 19 he took her to a temple in kotdwar on bike on their way back after offering their prayers they took a detour into a forest near kotdwar to spend some time alone where once again minakshi proposed once again he refused she got furious and apparently threatened to frame him in a false case at which he panicked and strangled her he then disfigured her face with a rock hid her body in the forest and fled following yogeshs confession police have recovered minakshis body and the rock used to disfigure her