Twenty-two-year-old Kunal Bavdhane was full of hope when he decided to propose to his childhood friend Vrushali Jadhav, 20, after meeting her near Sanjay Gandhi National Park at Borivli East on Wednesday afternoon. But when she turned down his proposal, Kunal became violent and attacked her multiple times with a knife, Not only this, he also tried to kill himself."

However, the driver of the auto-rickshaw they were travelling in intervened at the right time and called the police, who then rushed the culprit to the hospital. According to the police, Kunal and Vrushali knew each other since childhood as earlier both of them resided in Walkeshwar. Recently, the girl's family shifted to Bhayandar. Vrushali works in a Borivli-based private bank, while Kunal is a staffer at an international tours and travel company.