VALPOI: The Valpoi police on Thursday arrested the Mauxi youth whose girlfriend set herself on fire, recently, after he refused to marry her.
The girl from Hivrem suffered 90 per cent burns in the incident and later succumbed to her injures while undergoing treatment in Goa Medical College and Hospital at Bambolim, on Wednesday.
After the incident, her family members and Hivrem villagers led a morcha to Valpoi police station demanding the arrest of the boy.
The arrested youth is identified as 19-year-old Vithal Shrikant Gaonkar. A case under Section 306 of IPC has been registered against him.
