India, Feb. 9 -- A 24-year-old woman in Sector 37 was left critically injured after a 23-year-old stalker from Uttar Pradesh allegedly shot her in head on Friday for spurning his marriage proposal, police said on Saturday, adding that he has been arrested.

Police identified the suspect as Upendra Kumar, a private tutor from Auraiya, Uttar Pradesh, and the victim as Radha Devi, a security guard. The incident occurred as they met in a park in Sector 37 at night.

Kumar had arrived in Gurugram on Friday and shot her from a close range with a country-made pistol, said Sandeep Kumar, PRO, Gurugram police. "Locals found her lying in a pool of blood and rushed her to civil hospital in Sector 10A and later shifted her to Safdarjung hospital, Del...