Kendrapada: A 25-year-old jilted lover was arrested on Monday on charges of brutally killing a 21-year-old girl in Kendrapada district. The girl, Sasmita Behera, of Jadupur village under Marsaghai police station, had gone missing on Friday evening.She was allegedly murdered and dumped in a water-filled ditch near the village by the accused Arajit Mohanty (25) of Balisahi village on Friday night. Her body was found with her throat slit at Jadupur village on Saturday morning.The body was first spotted by some locals who alerted police. “We seized a blood-stained knife near the ditch. During investigation police came to know that Arajit killed her as she spurned his marriage proposal. The accused confessed to the crime,” said IIC of Marsaghai police station Tapan Nayak.The girl was studying Plus III arts in Marshaghai College. Tension mounted in Jadupur on Monday after many villagers blocked the road and demanded that the accused be handed over to them during a crime scene recreation by police. The accused was produced in a Kendrapada court on Monday. The court rejected his bail application and remanded him to jail custody, Nayak said.