Bengaluru: A 20-year-old-girl student was stabbed to death by another student at Presidency college in Bengaluru's Yelahanka on Monday afternoon. The assailant stabbed himself after the M Tech student who received multiple stabs in her body and collapsed in a pool of blood.
Police sources said the suspect came armed with a knife and approached the girl at around 12.30pm. She had already rejected his love proposal and he was not happy with that and had been pestering her to change her decision. He got to her and picked up a conversation in the corridors of the college.
As she evaded him, the suspect began to attack her with his knife. After dealing repeated stabbings, the youth hurt himself as well. The other students who heard the girl cry for help alerted the staff and the security. While the assailant survived in the self-harm bid, the girl student was declared dead at the hospital.
Visuals from the college campus showed three security personnel seen carrying the injured girl and placing her on the stretcher in an ambulance with paramedics. The assailant youth who is also a student from a different college is reportedly identified as Pawan Kalyan and is from Kolar district same as that of the deceased girl student.
However, the police said they are yet to ascertain the exact reason for the murder. Rajanukunte station police officers visited the spot and conducted an investigation. Bengaluru district police top brass conducted spot investigation and also visited the hospital where the assailant was being treated. Pawan is said to be critical.
