A teenage girl stabbed her mother to death when the latter tried to stop her from eloping with her boyfriend, whom she had befriended on social media. The alleged incident occurred in a village in Tamil Nadu's Thiruvallur district.

According to India Today, the girl, identified as Devi Priya, was a college student who had befriended a man named Vivek on a social media platform and had fallen in love with him. Both Vivek and Devi Priya conspired to elope and get married to each other, police said. Reports said that Vivek works in a garment shop.