KANPUR, March 11 -- A 17-year-old girl was brutally murdered by her alleged boyfriend on Monday afternoon in Karrahi Bazar, Barra. The victim was a class 12 student at a school in Naubasta, informed police.

The accused, identified as 23-year-old Shivam Varma, a resident of Fatehpur and an employee at a nursing home in the Karrahi Bazar area, reportedly used surgical blades to nearly behead the victim. After committing the crime, Varma called the victim's friend and confessed to the murder. The friend immediately informed the victim's father, who then alerted the police, informed Ashish Shrivastava, deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Kanpur South.

An FIR has been registered against Shivam Varma, and multiple police teams are conducting ...