New Delhi, January 9: In a shocking incident, a Delhi man was arrested for trying to kill his girlfriend after she broke up with him and denied his demand for a patch-up. According to reports, the man (24) attacked his 21-year-old girlfriend with a hammer at a south Delhi hotel and then rushed her to the Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, telling the hospital authorities that she had fallen and badly hurt her head. According to a report by Hindustan Times, the man had lied to his girlfriend about his breakthrough in the Mumbai TV industry to lure her. Police informed that the accused is an unemployed man was arrested on Monday for the crime. Man Murders Wife Over Extramarital Affair, Confesses Crime in a Self-Shot Video & Kills Himself. 

The report informs that the man hit the woman nearly half-a-dozen times and thought she would die. However, the woman survived and described her ordeal to the Police. The woman is out of danger now. The report states that the man first lured the woman to a hotel in Mahipalpur by telling her that he would be moving to Mumbai and wanted to meet her for the last time. UP Shocking Honour Killing Case: Man Killed by Wife's Brothers, 3 Years After Inter-Caste Marriage. 

According to Police, during their two-hour stay at a room in the hotel, the girl refused to get back with him. According to the report, Devender Arya, deputy commissioner of police (south-west) said the doctors realised that the injury was not from a fall and restrained the man until a police team arrived to investigate the matter. The Police informed that the woman later informed that the man had attacked her with a hammer after she refused to get back into a relationship with him.

The victim works in a private firm and lives with her family in Delhi’s Sarojini Nagar while the man stays in RK Puram. As per details by the Police, the couple was in a relationship for eight years, but she broke up with the man three months ago as he wasn’t serious about his career. Both of them parted ways but as the woman had forgotten her Aadhaar card in the hotel room, the man called her again on Sunday on the pretext of giving her the document. The man again persisted with his demand for a patch-up and when the woman refused, he attacked her with a hammer.

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