Patiala, March 8 -- In a double tragedy for a Patiala family, a 16-year-old girl was stabbed to death by a stalker while her six-year-old sister died of "shock".

According to police, the 16-year-old girl was stabbed near her house at the Sanauri Adda area of the city around 7pm on Wednesday. She was rushed to Government Rajindra Hospital where she succumbed to injuries.

Patiala superintendent of police (SP) Mohammed Sarfraz Alam said a case under Section 302 (murder) of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against Arun Kumar. A hunt has been launched to nab him, he said adding that the accused stabbed the girl fallowing an altercation.

The postmortem report revealed that the girl suffered multiple stab wounds in the left side of h...