NEW DELHI: Shalini had moved on, but Aashu had not. After she chose her husband over him, his obsession only grew darker. On Saturday night, as the 22-year-old pregnant woman and her husband Aakash (23) met her mother on Qutub Road in central Delhi’s Nabi Karim, Aashu (34), a local goon, waited in the shadows. When he saw them, his anger boiled over — and in an instant, violence erupted. Aashu allegedly attacked Shalini with a knife, stabbing her multiple times and disfiguring her face. Aakash tried to save Shalini, but Aashu’s blade left him wounded too.

In a final act of desperation, Aakash managed to overpower and stab Aashu to death with the same knife. But it was too late. Shalini succumbed, leaving behind a devastated family. Aakash, meanwhile, was left to fight for his life,

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