Pune- A young female software professional was brutally murdered here last night when she was returning home last night, police said on Saturday.
Darshana Tongare, the 21-year-old employee of IBM was stabbed in the stomach by an unidentified assailant.
The girl had been dropped near her residence in Bavdhan area after duty hours and was heading for home when the attack took place.
She was taken to a hospital where she died within two hours following profuse bleeding.
Police officer Dnyaneshwar Chavan said robbery did not seem to be a motive behind the crime prima facie and the case was also being probed from the angle of a possible one-sided love affair.
No arrest has been made so far in connection with the crime which happened just a day after Pune's first woman police commissioner Meera Borwankar took office, succeeding Satyapal Singh, transferred to Mumbai.
The city has been witnessing a rising trend of crime against women, including those belonging to I-T industry required to comply with an erratic duty schedule and night shifts. PTI
