Thane: A 17-year-old girl from Bhiwandi town in Thane district was stabbed to death allegedly by a youth after she refused to accept his proposal, police said today.

The incident occurred in the wee hours last morning when the victim, identified as Geeta alias Payal Biali Paswan, was sleeping at her house in Kamatnagar locality along with her sister, while their parents were away to their native place, said inspector S B Shendge of Bhiwandi city police station.

He said that the accused, identified only as Raja, had been pestering her to enter into relationship with her which she refused.

Shendge said that Raja and Payal had been working at a same powerloom, but she stopped reporting to work allegedly due to harassment by the accused.

Raja has been arrested and is booked under sections 302 (punishment for murder) and 449 (house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death) of IPC.