INDORE: A 25-year-old media professional was stabbed 38 times in Indore late on Thursday night by a man who claimed he had been wooing her since high school and couldn’t bear to see her “adopt a modern lifestyle and make male friends”. The victim, Supriya Jain, died in hospital around 6.30am on Friday.The accused, Kamlesh Sahu, attacked her with a sickle . After stalking her on Facebook , he lay in wait for her for days and struck the moment he found her alone.Sahu told TOI at MIG police station that he killed Supriya as she had taken to a “modern lifestyle and had many male friends”. “I was in love with her. I had proposed to her when we were in Class XII and she had said we will be in a relationship once she gets a job. I waited for her all this while,” Sahu told TOI. “The kind of clothes she wore made me furious,” he said. “I decided to kill her after I found her speaking to different men at her office,” he said Supriya, who hailed from Damoh , was a back-office executive with a media house in Vijay Nagar. On Thursday night, as she walked towards the main road to buy dinner, Sahu grabbed her by the hair and pushed her to the ground, say police. Passersby watched in horror as he pulled out a sickle and attacked Supriya. Two men ran to her help, but Sahu threatened to kill them if they came near.The duo ran towards the main road where they spotted a Dial 100 van. When police arrived, Sahu was sitting on a blood-soaked Supriya, repeatedly slashing her face. “The accused has been arrested and booked for murder,” police said.He stalked her for days and waited in the lane every night. Thursday was the first night he found her alone.

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