Hyderabad, July 1 -- In a horrifying incident in Madhya Pradesh, a man fatally slit the throat of his former lover, a nursing student at a government hospital in broad daylight as bystanders failed to intervene.

Eighteen-year-old Sandhya Chaudhary was a nursing student at the Narshingpur district hospital.

District superintendent of police (SP) Mrigakhi Deka told reporters that Sandhya met Abhishek Kosthi through social media and soon became lovers. "She was in a relationship with the accused, Abhishek Kosthi, for two years. From January this year, he suspected she was 'cheating on him,'" the SP said.

Kosthi has been arrested by the police. He confessed to planning to kill her and then take his own life. "He tried to harm himself, but ...