According to the Mahatma Phule police station where the case has been registered, Supriya More (24) was attacked by her friend Ravi Parke at around 11.30 am with a sharp weapon after she had turned down his marriage proposal.

“Ravi called me to Ambivli station at 11 am on Wednesday. From there we took an autorickshaw,” Supriya stated in her police statement. According to her, after they alighted from the autorickshaw, Parke proposed to her. But when she turned down the proposal, he turned violent and attacked her. The accused allegedly fled the spot after the incident.

“Supriya was taken to the hospital by the watchman of a company near which the incident occurred,” said her uncle Shantaram. From Rukminibai hospital she was later shifted to a private hospital in Kandivli.

Supriya, who resides in Thakur complex in Kandivli, knew Parke ever since she was doing a course in library science in Mumbai University a year and a half ago.

“He had proposed to me earlier, but I refused saying that my parents had already fixed my marriage and we could just be good friends,” Supriya said in her statement and added, “He then told me to tell his mother that my marriage was fixed.”

Anup Kumar Singh, DCP (Kalyan), said, “The victim had come to Kalyan from Mumbai. This, in the preliminary investigation, indicates that both knew each other well.”