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While the girl’s family has been claiming that Surender While the girl’s family has been claiming that Surenderwas stalking Karuna, the accused has told the police he was ina relationship with her and they were "looking to getmarried", said a senior police officer. Surender has told the police that the two had been "in arelationship for the last one year and their families knewabout it". During questioning, Surender told police that he proposedto Karuna to marry him but she turned down the proposal. "He claimed that he was in touch with Karuna for morethan a year. Six months back, they had a tiff and Karuna’sfamily had lodged a complaint against him. But then both thefamilies got together and resolved their differences," asenior police officer said. He claimed that the trigger for his anger was that Karunahad got into a relationship with another man. "He claimed thatsomeone sent him Karuna’s pictures with another man and thatis what angered him and he took this step of teaching her alesson," added the officer. Police are investigating the matter and trying to tracethe man who was accompanying Surender on the motorbike when hestabbed her, said the officer. Neha, who was accompanying Karuna at the time of theincident, is in trauma but managed to record her statementbefore the police. On the basis of her statement, a case has been registeredand investigation has been taken up, added the officer. PTISLB TIRTIR