mumbai furious over his girlfriends decision to call off their wedding a 24yearold charkop youth tried to kill her before stabbing himself thrice on sunday night while the girl survived he succumbed to injuriespratiksha hatim and bhavin hansora were neighbours in sector 4 and were seeing each other for two years their families were aware of it and had agreed to the marriage the two were to fix a wedding date but when pratiksha learnt that bhavin wasnt taking his career seriously and had started drinking she started distancing herself from him she also told her parents that she did not want to go ahead with the weddingpratiksha worked in an imitation jewellery firm in sector 3 while bhavin assisted his elder brother in their furnituremaking business the two lived in adjacent societies and got friendly in 2003 the hansoras shifted to another locality but bhavin kept in touch with pratiksha a police officer saidpratiksha had told us about her relationship with bhavin the couple decided to get married only after bhavins elder brother tied the knot her father yeshwant said yeshwant is an autorickshaw driver and has two other children when pratiksha found out that bhavin wasnt going to work and had taken to drinking she got upset and stopped meeting him yeshwant addedthe hatims had decided to visit their hometown on monday im diabetic and had asked pratiksha to fetch some tablets for me on sunday she left home at 845 pm to buy them but bhavin was waiting at the society gate yeshwant saidofficials said bhavin was carrying a kitchen knife with him after a bitter fight with pratiksha he slit her throat he then used the same knife to stab himself thrice in the abdomenpratiksha staggered back home covering her throat with her hand i was horrified to find her covered in blood and called for an auto to take her to a hospital then i found bhavin bleeding at the society entrance and carried him in the same auto with us yeshwant said the two were later moved to bhagwati hospital where they were operated on bhavin succumbed to his injuries at 3 am on mondayafter bhavins death the two families came to blows a police officer said pratiksha is recuperating in the iccu and isnt in a position to speak we can ascertain the motive behind the attack only after taking her statement the police have seized the knife while bhavins family refused to comment locals said he was an introvert the attack was preplanned we registered a case against bhavin for attempt to murder and attempting to commit suicide the officer said nitashanatutimesgroupcom