Hyderabad:
A jilted youth allegedly tried to set ablaze a teenage girl after dousing her with kerosene in Andhra Pradesh's Chittoor district on Tuesday, police said.
Mani Kanta, an auto-rickshaw driver, reportedly proposed the 17-year-old girl, a first-year intermediate student, few months ago but it was rejected by her, they said.
Enraged over her rejection, the man allegedly poured kerosene on the girl outside her house at Reddygunta locality in Chittoor town, set her afire and fled, the victim's father Shiva Nanda Reddy said in his police complaint.
She was rushed to a local hospital with 65 per cent burn, a police officer said, adding that she was in a critical condition.
Meanwhile, the youth was apprehended in the evening.
Several women organisations have demanded a stern punishment for the accused.