Pupil Stabs One other To Dying At Karnataka’s Bengaluru’s Presidency School

Bengaluru:

A 19-year-old girl was stabbed to loss of life by her distant cousin at her faculty in Karnataka’s Bengaluru on Monday, the police stated.

Layasmitha was stabbed a number of occasions by Pawan Kalyan within the hall of Presidency School the place she was finding out BTech.

Pawan Kalyan, a BCA scholar at Nrupathunga College in Bengaluru, was Layasmitha’s distant cousin and so they knew one another effectively, officers stated.

“He needed to marry Layasmitha,” they stated.

21-year-old Pawan had entered Layasmitha’s faculty with a knife ditching the safety, officers stated.

After attacking Layasmitha a number of occasions, Pawan tried to kill himself too. 

“Pawan was carrying a knife. After a short dialog with Layasmitha, he stabbed her a number of occasions. He then stabbed himself within the chest,” a police official stated.

The school employees and Layasmitha’s buddies rushed her to a close-by hospital the place she was declared introduced lifeless on arrival, officers stated, including that Pawan Kalyan is being handled on the hospital.

Pawan had been requesting Layasmitha’s mother and father to let him marry their daughter for the final three-four years – which they’d refused. Her mom had warned him earlier as effectively, stated Mallikarjun Baldandi, Superintendent of Police, Bengaluru Rural.

Police stated a case has been registered and investigation is underway.

Mr Baldandi stated 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 school has employed a personal safety company and have a robust safety in place,” he stated.