Pursuing a teenage boy for stabbing a 14-year-old girl, the Virar police have since discovered that it was the girl who stabbed herself and then blamed it on the boy in order to hide the fact that the two were in a relationship.

mid-day had reported the stabbing on Tuesday ('Embarrassed by public rejection, teenager stabs girl he was wooing'), when the girl had claimed that the boy attacked her after she rejected his proposal and slapped him.