Rajkot: The Jetpur sessions court of Additional district judge Chaudhary has given the death penalty to convict Jayesh Sarvaiya for the murder of Srushti Raiyani in the year 2021.

Srushti Raiyani (16), a class XI student, and daughter of a farmer was dragged out of her house in Jetalsar village of Jetpur taluka of Rajkot, by a then 23-year-old Jayesh Sarvaiya, a resident of same village, who thrashed her for rejecting his marriage proposal. When the girl refused to give in, Sarvaiya stabbed her 32 times with a knife in full public view till she died. Srushti was alone with her younger brother that evening. When Srushti’s younger brother Harsh tried to intervene, Jayesh attacked him with a knife too. But Harsh managed to escape with few superficial wounds and took refuge in a neighbor’s house.

Jetalsar village had observed a bandh in wake of the killing. Jayesh had been following the victim, who was a student of Jetpur Girl’s School, for quite some time. On the day of the murder, Jayesh came to Shrusti’s house and asked her to accept his marriage proposal. But the girl refused. So he dragged her out of the house and stabbed her 32 times.