The attacker, Pawan Kalyan, was a BCA pupil from one other faculty.
Bengaluru:
A 19-year-old girl was stabbed to dying by her distant cousin at her faculty in Karnataka’s Bengaluru on Monday, the police mentioned.
Layasmitha was stabbed a number of instances by Pawan Kalyan within the hall of Presidency Faculty the place she was learning BTech.
Pawan Kalyan, a BCA pupil at Nrupathunga College in Bengaluru, was Layasmitha’s distant cousin and so they knew one another effectively, officers mentioned.
“He wished to marry Layasmitha,” they mentioned.
21-year-old Pawan had entered Layasmitha’s faculty with a knife ditching the safety, officers mentioned.
After attacking Layasmitha a number of instances, Pawan tried to kill himself too.
“Pawan was carrying a knife. After a quick dialog with Layasmitha, he stabbed her a number of instances. He then stabbed himself within the chest,” a police official mentioned.
The faculty workers and Layasmitha’s associates rushed her to a close-by hospital the place she was declared introduced useless on arrival, officers mentioned, including that Pawan Kalyan is being handled on the hospital.
Pawan had been requesting Layasmitha’s dad and mom to let him marry their daughter for the final three-four years – which they’d refused. Her mom had warned him earlier as effectively, mentioned Mallikarjun Baldandi, Superintendent of Police, Bengaluru Rural.
Police mentioned a case has been registered and investigation is underway.
Mr Baldandi mentioned the precise motive of the homicide is but to be ascertained. “We’re additionally analysing the CCTV footage to learn the way he gained entry contained in the campus. The faculty has employed a personal safety company and have a robust safety in place,” he mentioned.
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