Overcome by her guilty conscience, a young girl went to see her boyfriend, whom she had allegedly stabbed for taking advantage of her with false promises of marriage, at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Thursday only to be arrested by police.

Relatives of the victim, Zahirul Islam Shyamol, 25, recognised the girl through her burqa, a full body and face covering, at the hospital at around 10:30pm and raised the alarm.

The arrestee, Nilufa Shaheed Jannat, 22, in police custody, confessed that she lured Zahirul, a poultry farm owner, in a desolate area near their residence in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj district at around 1:00pm onThursday.

She then claimed to have stabbed him in the abdomen with aTk 20 knife she had bought from a local market and fled.

Nilufa said Zahirul took advantage of her emotions after her divorce in December, 2009, just six months into her marriage, and cajoled her into a physical relation after assuring her with false promises of marriage.

Afterwards, he denied keeping his promise, prompting her to avenge the deception, she added.